Deuteronomy 14:12
But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the ospray,
In Context
11All clean birds may be used for food.
13The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;
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 →