“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Leviticus 11 contains 47 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.