Deuteronomy 14:19 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“And every creeping thing that flieth {is} unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.”

Deuteronomy 14:19

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And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

And every creeping thing that flieth {is} unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

{But of} all clean fowls ye may eat.

Ye shall not eat {of} any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that {is} in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou {art} an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

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Deuteronomy 14:1

"Ye {are} the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."

Deuteronomy 14:2

"For thou {art} an 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."

Deuteronomy 14:3

"Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing."

Deuteronomy 14:4

"These {are} the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,"

Deuteronomy 14:5

"The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. {pygarg: or bison: Heb. dishon}"

Deuteronomy 14:6

"And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, {and} cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat."

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