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LevÃtico 11:41
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"Todo animal que se arrastra sobre la tierra es abominable; no se comerá.
Y todo animal que se arrastra sobre la tierra, es abominación; no se comerá.
Y todo reptil que se va arrastrando sobre la tierra, es abominación; no se comerá.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 11:20, Leviticus 11:23, Leviticus 11:29
Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:18 - an abomination Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 11:43 - Ye shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,.... Nothing is called a creeping thing, as Jarchi says, but what is low, has short feet, and is not seen unless it creeps and moves: and "every creeping thing" comprehends, as Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom observe, the eight creeping things before mentioned, Leviticus 11:29 and mention is made of them here, that they might not be eaten, which is not expressed before; and being described as creeping things "on the earth", is, according to Jarchi, an exception of worms in pease, beans, and lentiles; and, as others observe, in figs and dates, and other fruit; for they do not creep upon the earth, but are within the food; but if they go out into the air, and creep, they are forbidden:
[shall be] an abomination; detested and abhorred as food:
it shall not be eaten; it shall not be lawful to eat such a creature. This, as Jarchi, is binding upon him that causes another to eat, as well as he that eats, the one is guilty as the other. And indeed such are not fit to eat, and cannot be wholesome and nourishing; for, as a learned physician observes y, insects consist of particles exceeding small, volatile, unfit for nourishment, most of them live on unclean food, and delight in dung, and in the putrid flesh of other animals, and by laying their little eggs or excrements, corrupt honey, syrups, c. see Ecclesiastes 10:1 and yet some sorts of them are eaten by some people. Sir Hans Sloane, after having spoken of serpents, rats, and lizards, sold for food to his great surprise at Jamaica, adds z, but what of all things most unusual, and to my great admiration, was the great esteem set on a sort of "cossi" or timber worms, called cotton tree worms by the negroes and the Indians, the one the original inhabitants of Africa, and the other of America these, he says a, are sought after by them, and boiled in their soups, pottages, olios, pepper pots, and are accounted of admirable taste, like to, but much beyond marrow; yea, he observes b, that not they only, but the most polite people in the world, the Romans, accounted them so great a dainty, as to feed them with meal, and endeavour breeding them up. He speaks c also of ants, so large as to be sold in the markets in New Granada, where they are carefully looked after, and bought up for food; and says, the negroes feed on the abdomen of these creatures: he observes d, that field crickets were found in baskets among other provisions of the Indians.
y Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 302. z Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, vol. 1. Introduct. p. 25. a Ib. vol. 2. p. 193. b Introduct. ut supra. (a) Vid. Plin. l. 17. c. 24. & Aelian. de Animal. l. 14. c. 13. c Ib. vol. 2. p. 221, 223. d Ib. p. 204. Vid. Aristotel. Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 30.
