Leviticus 11:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.”
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“However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Only--this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 11:21 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:
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