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Leviticus 11:21 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 11 · verse 21
Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;Leviticus 11:21 · King James Version
Leviticus 11:21 in context
19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- creepingsheretsa swarmH8318 →
- flyingʻôwpha bird , often collectivelyH5775 →
- withalhêntheyH2004 →
- goethhâlakto walkH1980 →
- abovemaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- fourʼarbaʻfourH702 →
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Here is the law, 1. Concerning flying insects, as flies, wasps, bees, etc.; these they might not eat (Lev 11:20), nor indeed are they fit to be eaten;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-42