Deuteronomy 14:17 meaning and explanation
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14:17, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse sits inside Moses' list of birds Israel must not eat, part of Deuteronomy 14's teaching on clean and unclean foods given as the people prepare to enter the land. The three birds named here continue a longer catalogue of forbidden creatures, and the exact identification of each Hebrew term is uncertain; the BSB's "desert owl," "osprey" and "cormorant" are careful renderings of rare words.
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