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…

And the owl. — Better, and the ostrich, as the Authorized Version rightly renders it in the margin in three out of the ei…

And the owl
The great and little owls being after mentioned, it seems best, by the word here used, to understand the…

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…