Insects

How Nave’s arranged it

• Clean and unclean (ceremonially speaking)Leviticus 11:21–25Deuteronomy 14:19
• See Ant
• See Bee
• See Beetle
• See Cankerworm
• See Caterpillar
• See Flea
• See Flies
• See Gnat
• See Grasshopper
• See Hornet
• See Horse-leech

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 11:21–25

   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.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:21–252 voices

   “Yet these may ye eat,....

   “Legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth - The families of the Saltatoria, of which the common cricket, the common grasshopper, and the migratory locust, may be taken as types.

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2. Deuteronomy 14:19

   All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:192 voices

   “And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;"all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''See Gill on Lev 11:20; see Gill on Lev 11:21.

   “Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.

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