Deuteronomy 14:10
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
In Context
9These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
11All birds that are clean you shall eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:21And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people.
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 →