Leviticus 11:24
and will make you unclean. If you touch their dead bodies you will be unclean until the evening,
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23All other flying insects that crawl are repulsive to you,
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2If you touch anything unclean such as the dead body of any unclean wild animal or farm animal or vermin, even if you're unaware of it, you become unclean and guilty.
Leviticus 11:8You are not to eat their meat or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:31These animals that run along the ground are unclean for you. If you touch a dead one of them you will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 14:46Anyone who goes into the house during any time that it is sealed will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:6Anyone who sits on whatever the man was sitting on has to wash their clothes, and wash themselves with water, and they will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:8If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, they have to wash their clothes, and wash themselves with water, and they will be unclean until the 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 →