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Even these of them you may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
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Four Kinds of Locusts
Commentators clarify that the four creatures listed are all types of locusts, despite some translations using words like "beetle" or "cricket." While the exact species are debated by scholars, the text permits eating certain leaping insects, specifically varieties of locusts, which were a common food source in the ancient world.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the uncertainty of identifying these four creatures, it has been suggested that some of the names may belong to locusts in an imperfect state of…
19th Century
Anglican
The locust after his kind. —Of the four species of locusts here specified as permitted to be eaten, this one called arbe …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Even] these of them you may eat , &c] The four following ones, which seem to be no other than four sorts of locusts…
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