Leviticus 11:20 KJV — MannaFest

Leviticus 11:20

All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

KJV

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ASV

All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you.

DBT

Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.

WEB

All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

YLT

`Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four--an abomination it is to you.

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Deuteronomy 14:19
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 7:21
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
1 John 2:15–17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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), nor indeed are they fit to be eaten; but there were several sorts of locusts which in those countries were very good meat, and much used: John Baptist lived upon them in the desert, and they are here allowed them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All fowls that creep, &c.--By "fowls" here are to be understood all creatures with wings and "going upon all fours," not a restriction to animals which have exactly four feet, because many "creeping things" have more than that number. The prohibition is regarded generally as extending to insects, reptiles, and worms.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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