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Leviticus 11:20-22
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Clean and Unclean Insects

20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours[a] is detestable to you. 21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs[b] to hop with on the land. 22 These you may eat from them:[c] the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 11:20 tn Heb “the one walking on four” (cf. vv. 21-23 and 27-28).
  2. Leviticus 11:21 tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).
  3. Leviticus 11:22 tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.
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