Leviticus 11:20

Clean and Unclean Insects

11:20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours ¹  is detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:23

11:23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:27

11:27 All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours ²  are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:21

11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs ³  to hop with on the land.

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ⁴  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ⁵  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

¹ tn Heb “the one walking on four” (cf. vv. 21-23 and 27-28).

² tn Heb “the one walking on four.” Compare Lev 11:20-23.

³ tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).

⁴ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

⁵ tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”