Deuteronomy 14:19
All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
20But you may eat any clean bird.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
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 →