Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 14:20
[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
20. Of all clean winged things ye may eat ] R.V. fowl is misleading; the term winged covers both birds and flying insects and here probably refers only to the latter. Arabs and other eastern peoples eat locusts not only in time of famine; fried or made into cakes they are considered a delicacy (Burton, Pilgrimage, etc., ii. 117; Doughty, i. 472, ii. 245 f., 323; Musil, Ethn. Ber. 151).
Nothing is said of reptiles (frogs may be supposed to fall under the class of unclean fishes, Deu 14:10). Lev 11:29 ff. counts as unclean, the weasel, mouse, lizards, chameleon and Lev 11:41 serpents. Arabs eat lizards, ‘very sweet meat,’ though some abhor them as serpents (Doughty, i. 70, 326, ii. 533: cp. for ancient Arabia, G. Jacob, 24, 95); and even one species of serpent is eaten (Musil, Ethn. Ber. 151). And mice are eaten both by some Arabs and in N. Syria (Tristram).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
But of all clean fowls ye may eat. Even of all fowls, but those before excepted; Aben Ezra instances in the locust, as being a clean fowl, that might be eaten; and so the Targum of Jonathan is
“every clean locust ye may eat;”
see Le 11:22.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Ver. 20. But of all clean fowls Rather, of all clean flying things: it is principally meant of the insect kind, locusts especially. See Lev 11:21-22.