But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself,.... This law is repeated from Lev 17:15; see Gill on Lev 17:15,
thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; not…
Compare Lev. 11. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deu 14:5 The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the…
Moses here tells the people of Israel,
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in…
Cambridge Bible
eagle nesher, Ar. nisr, the great vulture or griffon, gyps fulvus, identified by the baldness of its head and neck, Mic 1:16; from its frequency and its size -the most striking ornithological feature…