Leviticus 11:21
But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
20Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth. Animals which you are to eat, etc... The prohibition of so many kinds of beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law, was ordered, 1st, to exercise the people in obedience, and temperance; 2ndly, to restrain them from the vices of which these animals were symbols; 3rdly, because the things here forbidden were for the most part unwholesome, and not proper to be eaten; 4thly, that the people of God, by being obliged to abstain from things corporally unclean, might be trained up to seek a spiritual cleanness.
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 →