Discovery BoxLeviticus 11:20 
Context11:20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours 1 is detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:23
Context11:23 But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:41
Context11:41 Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:21
Context11:21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs 2 to hop with on the land.
Leviticus 11:29
Context11:29 “‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: 3 the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
Leviticus 11:31
Context11:31 These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:43
Context11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. 4 You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,
Leviticus 22:5
Context22:5 or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, 5 or touches a person 6 by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity 7 –
Leviticus 11:42
Context11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls 8 on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs 9 of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.
Leviticus 11:44
Context11:44 for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
Leviticus 11:10
Context11:10 But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.
1 tn Heb “the one walking on four” (cf. vv. 21-23 and 27-28).
2 tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).
3 tn For zoological analyses of the list of creatures in vv. 29-30, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:671-72; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 161-62.
4 tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”
5 tn Heb “which there shall be uncleanness to him.”
6 tn The Hebrew term for “person” here is אָדָם (adam, “human being”), which could either a male or a female person.
7 tn Heb “to all his impurity.” The phrase refers to the impurity of the person whom the man touches to become unclean (see the previous clause). To clarify this, the translation uses “that person’s” rather than “his.”
8 tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.
9 tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”
