Deuteronomy 14:19
And euery creeping thing that flieth, shall be vncleane vnto you: it shall not be eaten.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18The storke also, and the heron in his kinde, nor the lapwing, nor the backe.
20But of all cleane foules ye may eate.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde 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 →