Ok; understood.
However, I am not sure that the bible said that the fowl are considered "clean" and the 'regular birds' are considered "unclean." Is there a biblical reference for this belief?
Just as
swine were considered
unclean ,and were not eaten by Jews, so were
unclean birds.
Birds such as ones that ate prey were
unclean animals.Like
eagles,buzzards,vultures etc.. Fowls are
birds used for
food ,and their eggs, such as
Chickens,Turkeys,ducks,geese etc.. These are
clean.
This is where many get confused.People think this next verse means
, two of every sort , meaning only two animals.What this really is saying is two of every sort,meaning
male and female.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be
male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,
two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
So we can clearly see that it refers to
male and
female when it says
two of every sort.
Notice now how it describes the kinds of animals, and then it says the number of them also.
7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
We must remember that animal flesh was not eaten until the time after Noah touched ground, after the flood.Before this time God's people ate vegetation.So it all started with the eight.Now I am not sure if God explained the rules of eating clean and unclean animals to Noah at that time or not.I know it was explained in Leviticus to Moses and Aaron.
LEVITICUS 11
13 “‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15 any kind of raven, 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you. 21 There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. 23 But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.
24 “‘You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening. 25 Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.
So from these passages we can clearly see that
Chickens ,Geese,Turkeys,ducks etc.. are clean animals to eat.These are
fowls.
