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Leviticus 11:20

All winged insects that walk on four legs are detestable to you.

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In The King James Version

All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

In Context

19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and also the bat.

21Yet you may eat any of the flying insects that also walk on four legs if they have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:27Whatever walks on its paws among all the animals that walk on all four legs, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches such a carcass will be unclean until the evening.

2 Kings 17:28So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should honor Yahweh.

Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

2 Timothy 4:10For Demas has left me. He loves this present world and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, and Titus went to Dalmatia.

Jude 1:10But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand—what unreasoning animals know by instinct—these are what destroy them.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:10-20

9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the… Read the whole commentary →

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