Deuteronomy 14:18
The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
In Context
17Nor the pellicane, nor the swanne, nor the cormorant:
19And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.
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 →