Deuteronomy 14:16
The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
In Context
15And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
17And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
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 →