Deuteronomy 14:19
And anything which crawls and also has little wings shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18the pelican and the plover, each in their kind, likewise the crested hoopoe and the bat.
20All that is clean, you shall eat.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.
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 →