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Leviticus 11:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

All fowls that creep,.... Or rather "every creeping thing that flies"; for what are designed are not properly fowls, but, as the Jewish writers interpret them, flies, fleas, bees, wasps, hornets, locusts, &c.

so the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, Ben Gersom, and Maimonides :going upon [all] four; that is, upon their four feet, when they walk or creep:[these shall be] an abomination to you; not used as food, but detested as such.

Maacolot Asurot, c. 2. l.

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