Leviticus 11:21–23

11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs19 to hop with on the land. 11:22 These you may eat from them:20 the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind. 11:23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

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19	tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).
20	tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665–66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160–61.