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Leviticus 11:21
Leviticus 11:21 is verse 21 of Leviticus chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
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;
World English Bible
Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.
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Leviticus 11:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
21 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.
22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
23 All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
Read all of Leviticus 11Hebrew words
אַ֤ךְneverthelessאֶת<obj.>זֶה֙thisתֹּֽאכְל֔וּyou will eatמִכֹּל֙from everyשֶׁ֣רֶץ<the> swarming thing ofהָע֔וֹף<the> wingהַהֹלֵ֖ךְwhich walksעַלonאַרְבַּ֑עfour [legs]אֲשֶׁרwhichל֤וֹ[belong] to <the> itכְרָעַ֙יִם֙legsמִמַּ֣עַלfrom aboveלְרַגְלָ֔יו<to> feet itsלְנַתֵּ֥רto hopבָּהֵ֖ןwith <the> themעַלonהָאָֽרֶץthe ground
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