OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 11:21

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21

Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.

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Verse 21. Walketh. Hebrew adds lo, “not.” But the Massorets read lu, “to it,” agreeably to the Vulg. Calmet.—Prot. version, “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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