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 swan. —The word here translated “swan,” which, besides the parallel list in Deuteronomy, also occurs in Leviticus 11:30, a…

And the swan
This is a bird well known to us, but it is a question whether it is intended by the word here used; for…

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…