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21 However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs[a] to hop with on the land.

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  1. Leviticus 11:21 tn Heb “which to it are lower legs from above to its feet” (reading the Qere “to it” rather than the Kethib “not”).

22 These you may eat from them:[a] the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

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  1. Leviticus 11:22 tn For entomological remarks on the following list of insects see J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:665-66; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 160-61.