 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...BEETLE, bčč'-tl, an insect mentioned in Lev. xi. 22 among the " creeping things that go upon allfours, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth," not included among the "unclean creatures " of which the Jews were prohibited to eat. It is classed... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...the bat. 20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth...legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and... | |
 | Latter Day Saint churches - 1867 - 1216 pages
...four, shall bo an abomination unto 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that gooth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth: 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and... | |
 | John George Wood - Animals - 1869 - 758 pages
...shows that the sacred writer is treating of insects under the head of "creeping things." " Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth...legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth ; " Even these of them may ye eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind,... | |
 | John George Wood - Nature in the Bible - 1870 - 744 pages
...writer is treating of insects under the head of "creeping things." " Yet these may ye eat of every Hying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have...legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth ; " Even these of them may ye eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind,... | |
 | 1871 - 628 pages
...children of Israel, as stated in Lev. xi. At ver. 21, we find the law given in these words — "Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth...above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth." Satisfaction is represented in the Word by food ; and the church of God — regenerated sinners —... | |
 | E. Clere - 1872 - 418 pages
...food, resembling in many respects the grasshopper. " Yet these may ye eat (said the Lord to Moses), of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all...legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth ; even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and honey, and no stronger drink than... | |
 | Alfred Charles Smith - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1873 - 458 pages
...it is that they were among the "flying, creeping things"1 allowed to be eaten by the Israelites, " which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth." Unquestionably, too, they formed a principal item in the daily food of St. John the Baptist ; 2 and... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - 1874 - 434 pages
...when the Bible was translated. Locusts — The law of Moses gave permission to eat locusts. " These may ye eat, of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four. . .the locust after his kind, and the bald locust," etc. Lev. xi, 21. The Eastern locust is a food... | |
 | John William Hayley - Bible - 1874 - 506 pages
...unclean unto you: they shall not be creeping thing that Roeth upon all four, eaten. Deut. xiv. 19. which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth, lint all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shatt be an abomination unto you. Lev.... | |
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Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. 
