Of all clean birds you may eat.
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Of all clean birds you may eat.
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But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
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Of all clean winged things ye may eat.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God,…
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there,.... See Deu 12:5 there the tithe of all the fruits of the earth was to be eaten; this is the second tithe, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, and which is more particularly described as follows:
the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil: see Deu 12:7,
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and the firstlings of thine herds, and of thy flocks; of which see the note on the above place:
that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always; which such a constant practice would inure unto; see Deu 10:12.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. Of all clean winged things ye may eat]…
20. Of all clean winged things ye may eat] R.V. fowl is misleading; the term winged covers both birds and flying insects and here probably refers only to the latter. Arabs and other eastern peoples eat locusts not only in time of famine; fried or made into cakes they are considered a delicacy (Burton, Pilgrimage, etc., ii. 117; Doughty, i. 472, ii. 245 f., 323; Musil, Ethn. Ber. 151).
Nothing is said of reptiles (frogs may be supposed to fall under the class of unclean fishes, Deu_14:10). Lev_11:29 ff. counts as unclean, the weasel, mouse, lizards, chameleon and Lev_11:41 serpents. Arabs eat lizards, ‘very sweet meat,’ though some abhor them as serpents (Doughty, i. 70, 326, ii. 533: cp. for ancient Arabia, G. Jacob, 24, 95); and even one species of serpent is eaten (Musil, Ethn. Ber. 151). And mice are eaten both by some Arabs and in N. Syria (Tristram).
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