Deuteronomy 14:19
Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.
20But all clean birds you may take.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
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 →