A moment in scripture
Leviticus 11:21
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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;
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The surrounding passage
- Leviticus 11:19
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
- Leviticus 11:20
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:22
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.
- Leviticus 11:23
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.