Leviticus Chapter 11 verse 41 Holy Bible
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
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Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.
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And every crawling thing which crawleth on the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
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And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
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And every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
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"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
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`And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 41-43. - The last class is that of vermin, which constitute a part of the un-winged creeping class already spoken of (verses 29, 30). Whatsoever goeth upon the belly indicates snakes, worms, maggots: whatsoever goeth upon all four, things that grovel, as moles, rats, hedgehogs; whatsoever hath more feet, or doth multiply feet, centipedes, caterpillars, spiders.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(41) And every creeping thing.--Besides the eight reptiles which defile by touching their carcase, and which are enumerated in Leviticus 11:29-30, all other creeping things upon the earth, with the exception of those specified in Leviticus 11:21-22, are to be treated as an abomination, and must not be eaten, though their carcases do not defile by coming in contact with them. From the fact that the creeping things here proscribed are expressly described as "creeping upon the earth," the administrators of the law during the second Temple concluded that the small worms which do not creep upon the earth do not come within the operation of this prohibition. Hence worms bred in vegetables, fruit, and certain kinds of food are permitted. Thus the worms in figs, dates, and berries, the mites in peas, beans, and lentils, the maggots in cheese, the insects found in the flesh and under the skin of fishes, are not proscribed, and only when they quit the object wherein they have been generated, and creep about upon the ground, are they forbidden. Hence the Chaldee Version of Jonathan renders the passage "and every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you" (Deuteronomy 14:19) by "and all bees and wasps, and all worms of vegetables and of pulse which leave the objects of food and fly like birds, are unclean unto you."
