Deuteronomy 14:11
All clean birds may be used for food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
In Context
10But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.
12But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:2-22
What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and… Read the whole commentary →