Deuteronomy 14:17
And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
In Context
16The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
18The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
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 →