Deuteronomy 14:9

When it comes to creatures that live in the water, you are allowed to eat anything that has fins and scales.

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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

8The same applies to the pig. Even though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. So you must treat it as unclean. You must not eat its meat or touch its dead body.

10But you must not eat anything that does not have fins and scales. You must treat them as unclean.

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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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