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Deuteronomy 14:19
Deuteronomy 14:19 is verse 19 of Deuteronomy chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
King James Version
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
World English Bible
All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
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Deuteronomy 14:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.
19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
20 But you may eat any clean bird.
21 You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 11:20All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:21However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
Leviticus 11:22Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Leviticus 11:23All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.