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3 Mose 11:15
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die ganze Rabenfamilie,
alle Raben nach ihrer Art,
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Genesis 8:7, 1 Kings 17:4, 1 Kings 17:6, Proverbs 30:17, Luke 12:24
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo o, is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for food nor does the care that God takes of these creatures, or the use he has made of them, contradict this see
Job 38:41.
o Aelian. De Animal. l. 1. c. 48. & l. 7. c. 18.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As far as they can be identified, the birds here mentioned are such as live upon animal food. They were those which the Israelites might have been tempted to eat, either from their being easy to obtain, or from the example of other nations, and which served as types of the entire range of prohibited kinds.
Leviticus 11:13
The eagle - Rather, the great vulture, which the Egyptians are known to have ranked as the first among birds. Compare 2 Samuel 1:23; Psalms 103:5; Proverbs 23:5, etc.
The Ossifrage, or bone-breaker, was the lammer-geyer, and the “ospray” (a corruption of ossifrage) the sea-eagle.
Leviticus 11:14
The vulture - Rather, the (black) kite Isaiah 34:15 : “the kite,” rather the red kite, remarkable for its piercing sight Job 28:7.
Leviticus 11:15
Every raven after his kind - i. e. the whole family of corvidae.
Leviticus 11:16
And the owl ... - Rather, “and the ostrich, and the owl, and the gull, and the hawk,” etc.
Leviticus 11:18
The swan - More probably the ibis, the sacred bird of the Egyptians. “The gier eagle” is most likely the Egyptian vulture, a bird of unprepossessing appearance and disgusting habits, but fostered by the Egyptians as a useful scavenger.
Leviticus 11:19
The heron ... the lapwing - Rather, the great plover the hoopoe, so called from its peculiar cry.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Leviticus 11:15. Every raven — ערב oreb, a general term comprehending the raven, crow, rook, jackdaw, and magpie.
