Deuteronomy 14:10
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales shall ye not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
In Context
9This may ye eat of all that is in the waters: all that hath fins and scales may ye eat;
11Every clean bird may ye eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:21And any person that toucheth any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which pertaineth unto the Lord, even that person 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 →