Leviticus 11:23

But of dying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

In Context

22That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.

24And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled, and shall be unclean until the evening:

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:27That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:21-43

20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 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; 22 Even 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. 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. 24 And for these ye shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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