Leviticus 11:23

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

King James Version
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Lexham English Bible
But any other winged insect that has four legs is detestable to you.

New Century Version
But all other insects that have wings and walk on four feet you are to hate.

New English Translation
But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

Amplified Bible
'But all other winged insects which are four footed are detestable to you.

New American Standard Bible
'But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But al other foules that creepe & haue foure feete, they shalbe abomination vnto you.

Legacy Standard Bible
But all other swarming things that fly and that are four-footed are detestable to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
But other than that, all winged swarming creatures having four feet are a detestable thing for you.

Darby Translation
But every winged crawling thing that hath four feet shall be an abomination unto you.

Easy-to-Read Version
"But stay away from all the other insects that have wings and crawl.

English Standard Version
But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.

George Lamsa Translation
But all other flying insects which have four feet are unclean to you.

Good News Translation
But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.

Christian Standard Bible®
All other winged insects that have four feet are to be abhorrent to you.

Literal Translation
But every swarming thing which flies, which has four feet, it is unclean to you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But what so euer els hath foure fete amonge the foules, it shalbe an abhominacion vnto you,

American Standard Version
But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination unto you.

Bible in Basic English
But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All [other] foules that creepe and haue foure feete, shalbe abhomination vnto you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But all winged swarming things, which have four feet, are a detestable thing unto you.

King James Version (1611)
But al other flying creeping things which haue foure feet, shall be an abomination vnto you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Every creeping thing from among the birds, which has four feet, is an abomination to you.

English Revised Version
But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination unto you.

Berean Standard Bible
All other winged creatures that have four legs are detestable to you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe what euer thing of briddis hath foure feet oneli, it schal be abhomynable to you;

Young's Literal Translation
and every teeming thing which is flying, which hath four feet -- an abomination it [is] to you.

Update Bible Version
But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are detestable to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
But all [other] flying creeping animals, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination to you.

World English Bible
But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

New King James Version
But all other flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you.

New Living Translation
All other winged insects that walk along the ground are detestable to you.

New Life Bible
But you are to hate all other bugs with wings and four feet.

New Revised Standard
But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But every other creeping thing that flieth, which hath four feet, an abomination, it is unto you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you.

Revised Standard Version
But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.

Contextual Overview

²⁰"All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. But you can eat some of these, namely, those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground: all locusts, katydids, crickets, and grasshoppers. But all the other flying insects that have four legs you are to detest. ²⁴"You will make yourselves ritually unclean until evening if you touch their carcasses. If you pick up one of their carcasses you must wash your clothes and you'll be unclean until evening. ²⁶ "Every animal that has a split hoof that's not completely divided, or that doesn't chew the cud is unclean for you; if you touch the carcass of any of them you become unclean. ²⁷"Every four-footed animal that goes on its paws is unclean for you; if you touch its carcass you are unclean until evening. If you pick up its carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening. They are unclean for you. ²⁹"Among the creatures that crawl on the ground, the following are unclean for you: weasel, rat, all lizards, gecko, monitor lizard, wall lizard, skink, chameleon. Among the crawling creatures, these are unclean for you. If you touch them when they are dead, you are ritually unclean until evening. When one of them dies and falls on something, that becomes unclean no matter what it's used for, whether it's made of wood, cloth, hide, or sackcloth. Put it in the water—it's unclean until evening, and then it's clean. If one of these dead creatures falls into a clay pot, everything in the pot is unclean and you must break the pot. Any food that could be eaten but has water on it from such a pot is unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk from it is unclean. Anything that one of these carcasses falls on is unclean—an oven or cooking pot must be broken up; they're unclean and must be treated as unclean. A spring, though, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but if you touch one of these carcasses you're ritually unclean. If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean. But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, you must treat it as unclean. ³⁹"If an animal that you are permitted to eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass is ritually unclean until evening. If you eat some of the carcass you must wash your clothes and you are unclean until evening. If you pick up the carcass you must wash your clothes and are unclean until evening. ⁴¹"Creatures that crawl on the ground are detestable and not to be eaten. Don't eat creatures that crawl on the ground, whether on their belly or on all fours or on many feet—they are detestable. Don't make yourselves unclean or be defiled by them, because I am your God .

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:20 - General Leviticus 11:27 - General Leviticus 11:41 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But all [other] flying creeping things,.... Excepting the four sorts before mentioned, wherefore we rightly supply the word "other":

which have four feet; or more; the Vulgate Latin version adds, "only", but wrongly; for those that have more are unclean, and forbidden to be eaten, excepting those in the preceding verse; and most creeping things that fly have six feet, as the locusts themselves, reckoning their leaping legs into the number; though it may be observed, that those creatures that have six feet have but four equal ones, on which they walk or creep; and the two foremost, which are longer, are as hands to them to wipe their eyes with, and protect them from anything that may fall into them and hurt them; they not being able to see clearly because of the hardness of their eyes, as Aristotle a observes, and particularly it may be remarked of the fly, as it is by Lucian b, that though it has six feet it only goes on four, using the other two foremost as hands; and therefore you may see it walking on four feet, with something eatable in its hands, lifting them up on high, just after the manner of men: now all such creatures that have four feet or more, excepting the above,

[shall be] an abomination unto you; abhorred as food, and abstained from.

a Ut supra. (Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 6.) b De Musca.