Deuteronomy 14:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 [a]All winged insects are also unclean for you and shall not be eaten. 20 Any clean winged creatures you may eat.
21 You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God.(A)
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.[b]
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- 14:19–20 Lv 11:20–23 suggests that the unclean winged insects are those that walk on the ground; the clean winged creatures are those that leap on the ground, such as certain species of locusts.
- 14:21 Boil a young goat in its mother’s milk: the meaning of this regulation is obscure but it may have a humane concern similar to the prohibitions against slaughtering an animal and its young on the same day (Lv 22:27–28) and capturing a mother bird along with her fledgling or eggs (Dt 22:6–7). See note on Ex 23:19.
Deuteronomy 14:19-21
New International Version
19 All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.(A)
21 Do not eat anything you find already dead.(B) You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.(C)
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(D)
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