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Leviticus 11:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: 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; "
Leviticus 11:21
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19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
21 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;
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
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Leviticus 11:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,"
Leviticus 11:2
"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth."
Leviticus 11:3
"Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat."
Leviticus 11:4
"Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you."
Leviticus 11:5
"And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you."
Leviticus 11:6
"And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you."
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