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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BSBPD

“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)
KJVPD

“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
ASVPD

“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
YLTPD

“`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 Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 11:21 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 11:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:

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