John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 14:11

"Of all clean birds ye may eat." — Deuteronomy 14:11 (ASV)

Of all clean birds you shall eat .
] Which the Targum of Jonathan describes, everyone that has a craw, and whose crop is naked, and has a superfluous talon, and is not rapacious; but such as are unclean are expressed by name in the following verses, so that all except them might be reckoned clean and fit for food. Maimonides ^F16 observes, that only the number of the unclean are reckoned, so that all the rest are free.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: Hilchot. Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14.