Deuteronomy 14:9

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

In Context

8And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

10But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

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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 →

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