Vulture
UNCLEAN
Named among the forbidden birds (Lev 11:13-19)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 4 verses (KJV)
Bird
Description
Vultures were scavengers grouped with kites and other carrion-eating birds on the list of animals Israel could not eat. Their diet of the dead made them ceremonially unfit for a people whose food laws were built around life and cleanness.
Key verses
“And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;”
Leviticus 11:14
All 4 referencesshow
- Deuteronomy 14:13
- Isaiah 34:15
- Job 28:7
- Leviticus 11:14