Clean and Unclean Animals
Leviticus 11:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;
- LSV
- Only, this you eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which has legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;
- YLT
- 'Only — this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;
- DBY
- Yet these shall ye eat of every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four: those which have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.
- DRC
- But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,
- GNV
- Yet these shall ye eate: of euery foule that creepeth, and goeth vpon all foure which haue their feete and legs all of one to leape withal vpon the earth,
- JPS
- Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;
- LXXE
- But these ye shall eat of the creeping winged animals, which go upon four feet, which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth.
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- Written (Ketiv): לֹא (“not”). Read aloud (Qere): ל֤וֹ (“[belong] to the it”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads לֹ֤א; read aloud (Qere) reads ל֤וֹ (“[belong] to the it”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֤ךְ אֶת־זֶה֙ תֹּֽאכְל֔וּ מִכֹּל֙ שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָע֔וֹף הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ עַל־אַרְבַּ֑ע אֲשֶׁר־לא כְרָעַ֨יִם֙ מִמַּ֣עַל לְרַגְלָ֔יו לְנַתֵּ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃Read aloud as (qere): ל֤וֹ
- LXX-Br
- Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα φάγεσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν πετεινῶν, ἃ πορεύεται ἐπὶ τέσσαρα, ἃ ἔχει σκέλη ἀνώτερον τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ, πηδᾷν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
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