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Leviticus 11:42

Context
11:42 You must not eat anything that crawls 1  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs 2  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Leviticus 11:44

Context
11:44 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 20:23

Context
20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation 3  which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

1 tn Heb “goes” (KJV, ASV “goeth”); NIV “moves about”; NLT “slither along.” The same Hebrew term is translated “walks” in the following clause.

2 tn Heb “until all multiplying of legs.”

3 tc One medieval Hebrew ms, Smr, and all the major ancient versions have the plural “nations.” Some English versions retain the singular (e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV); others have the plural “nations” (e.g., NAB, NIV) and still others translate as “people” (e.g., TEV, NLT).



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