Leviticus 11:13
And these shall ye have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: The eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
12Whatsoever hath not fins and scales in the waters, shall be an abomination unto you.
14And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Cross References
Job 28:7[On the] path which no bird of prey knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not surveyed;
Job 39:27Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?
Jeremiah 4:22“Because my people is foolish, me have they not known; sottish children are they, and they have not any understanding: wise are they to do evil, but how to do good they do not know.”
Lamentations 4:19Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven: upon the mountains did they hotly follow us: in the wilderness did they lie in wait for us.
Habakkuk 1:8And swifter than leopards are their horses, and fiercer than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves abroad: and their horsemen will come from afar; they will fly like the eagle hastening to eat.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:10-20
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the… Read the whole commentary →