Leviticus 11:11-12

11:11 Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest. 11:12 Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

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 11:41

11:41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:13

Clean and Unclean Birds

11:13 “‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ²  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 7:21

7:21 When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) ³  and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.’” ⁴ 

Leviticus 11:10

11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:42

11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls ⁵  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ⁶  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

[11:20]  ¹ tn Heb “the one walking on four” (cf. vv. 21-23 and 27-28).

[11:13]  ¹ tn For zoological remarks on the following list of birds see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:662-64; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 159-60.

[7:21]  ¹ sn For these categories of unclean animals see Lev 11.

[7:21]  ² sn For the interpretation of this last clause see the note on Lev 7:20.

[11:42]  ¹ tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

[11:42]  ² tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”