Leviticus 11:20

20 "Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

Leviticus 11:20 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 11:20

All fowls that creep
Or rather "every creeping thing that flies"; for what are designed are not properly fowls, but, as the Jewish writers interpret them, flies, fleas, bees, wasps, hornets, locusts so the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, Ben Gersom, and Maimonides ^F25:

going upon [all] four;
that is, upon their four feet, when they walk or creep:

[these shall be] an abomination to you;
not used as food, but detested as such.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Maacolot Asurot, c. 2. l. 5.

Leviticus 11:20 In-Context

18 barn owls, pelicans, ospreys,

19 storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

20 "Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

21 However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground.

22 You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.