John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 11:13
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls ,.... No description or sign is given of fowls, as of beasts and fishes, only the names of those not to be eaten; which, according to Maimonides, are twenty four; so that all the rest but these are clean fowls, and might be eaten; wherefore the same writer observes F24 Maacolot Asurot, c. 1. sect. 14, 15. , that,"whoever was expert in these kinds, and in their names, might eat of every fowl which was not of them,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 11:9-19
Here is, 1. A general rule concerning fishes, which were clean and which not. All that had fins and scales they might eat, and only those odd sorts of water-animals that have not were forbidden, Lev. 11:9, 10. The ancients accounted fish the most delicate food (so far were they from allowing it on fasting-days, or making it an instance of mortification to eat fish); therefore God did not lay much restraint upon his people in them; for he is a Master that allows his servants not only for... read more