Leviticus 11:21
But you are permitted to eat creatures with wings that sometimes walk on the ground if they have jointed legs for hopping around.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20You must detest and not eat flying insects that sometimes walk on the ground [MTY].
22They include locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2“Tell the Israeli people that this is what Yahweh says: From all the animals that live on the land, these are the ones that you are permitted to eat:
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 →