"And every creeping thing that flieth {is} unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten." — Deuteronomy 14:19

Deuteronomy 14:19 · KJV

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

— Deuteronomy 14:19

Verse 18

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

Verse 20

{But of} all clean fowls ye may eat.

Deuteronomy 14 — Context

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.

Cross References

Leviticus 11:20-23

All fowls that creep, going upon {all} four, {shall be} an abomination unto you.

Philippians 3:19

Whose end {is} destruction, whose God {is their} belly, and {whose} glory {is} in their shame, who mind earthly things.)