Deuteronomy 14:10
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
In Context
9These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;
11Of all clean birds ye may eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:21And when anyone shall touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto Jehovah, that soul 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 →