As far as they can be identified, the birds mentioned here are those that live on animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been…

You shall have in abomination among the fowls. —The third of the four great divisions of the animal kingdom—namely, the b…

And these are they which you shall have in abomination. The species of birds and reptiles that are forbidden are such as common feeling al…

And these [are they which] you shall have in abomination
among the fowls
No descripti…

These laws seem to have been intended,

1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…