And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,
Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.
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Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
