Deuteronomy 14:19
And, as for every creeping thing that flieth, unclean, it is unto you,—they, shall not be eaten.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
In Context
18and the stork, and the parrot, after its kind,—and the mountain-cock, and the bat.
20All clean fowls, ye may eat.
Cross References
Philippians 3:19Whose, end, is destruction, whose, God, is the belly, and [whose], glory, is in their shame, who, upon the earthly things, are resolved.
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 →