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But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
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A Broad Prohibition
Commentators explain that this verse establishes a general rule: all flying insects were forbidden as food, with the only exceptions being the specific types of locusts mentioned just prior. This sweeping command covered all other "winged creeping things."
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
But all other flying creeping things. —Better, but all other winged creeping things. Besides the above-named four species and the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But all [other] flying creeping things Excepting the four sorts before mentioned, wherefore we rightly supply the wo…
Presbyterian
These laws seem to have been intended,
As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…
