Deuteronomy 14:10
You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
In Context
9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
11Of all clean birds you may eat.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:21When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, that soul 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 →