Leviticus 11:20

20 omne de volucribus quod graditur super quattuor pedes abominabile erit vobis

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 cycnum et onocrotalum et porphirionem

19 erodionem et charadrion iuxta genus suum opupam quoque et vespertilionem

20 omne de volucribus quod graditur super quattuor pedes abominabile erit vobis

21 quicquid autem ambulat quidem super quattuor pedes sed habet longiora retro crura per quae salit super terram

22 comedere debetis ut est brucus in genere suo et attacus atque ophiomachus ac lucusta singula iuxta genus suum