Deuteronomy 14:19
All insects that fly are unclean to you; you must not eat them.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18storks, any kind of heron, hoopoe, or bats.
20But you are allowed to eat any clean animal that has wings.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19They will end up being completely lost, these people whose “god” is their physical desires and who are proud of what they should be ashamed of, thinking only about the things of this world.
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 →