Teks -- Leviticus 11:20 (NET)

Clean and Unclean Insects

11:20 “‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Lev 11:20 - All fowls

Flying things that crawl or creep upon the earth, and so degenerate from their proper nature, and are of a mongrel kind, which may intimate that apostates and mongrels in religion are abominable in the sight of God.

Wesley: Lev 11:20 - Upon all four

Upon four legs, or upon more than four, which is all one to the present purpose.

JFB: Lev 11:20 - All fowls that creep, &c.

By "fowls" here are to be understood all creatures with wings and "going upon all fours," not a restriction to animals which have exactly four feet, because many "creeping things" have more than that number. The prohibition is regarded generally as extending to insects, reptiles, and worms.

Clarke: Lev 11:20 - All fowls that creep

All fowls that creep - Such as the bat, already mentioned, which has claws attached to its leathern wings, and which serve in place of feet to crawl by, the feet and legs not being distinct; but this may also include all the different kinds of insects, with the exceptions in the following verse

Clarke: Lev 11:20 - Going upon all four

Going upon all four - May signify no more than walking regularly or progressively, foot after foot as quadrupeds do; for it cannot be applied to insects literally, as they have in general six feet, many of them more, some reputed to have a hundred, hence called centipedes; and some a thousand, hence called millipedes; words which often signify no more than that such insects have a great number of feet.

TSK: Lev 11:20

Lev 11:23, Lev 11:27; Deu 14:19; 2Ki 17:28-41; Psa 17:14; Mat 6:24; Phi 3:18, Phi 3:19; 2Ti 4:10; 1Jo 2:15-17; Jud 1:10, Jud 1:19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lev 11:20 - All fowls // Going upon all four

All fowls that crawl or creep upon the earth, and so degenerate from their proper nature, which is to fly, and are of a mongrel kind; which may intimate that apostates and mongrels in religion are abominable in the sight of God, and in conversation with men.

Going upon all four upon four legs, or upon more than four, as bees, flies, &c, which is all one to the present purpose, these pluralists for legs being here opposed to those that have but two.

Haydock: Lev 11:20 - Feet

Feet. Such as bees, (Calmet) and other insects of which he speaks. (Menochius)

Gill: Lev 11:20 - All fowls that creep // going upon all four // these shall be an abomination to you

All fowls that creep,.... Or rather "every creeping thing that flies"; for what are designed are not properly fowls, but, as the Jewish writers interpret them, flies, fleas, bees, wasps, hornets, locusts, &c. so the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, Ben Gersom, and Maimonides ^y:

going upon all four; that is, upon their four feet, when they walk or creep:

these shall be an abomination to you; not used as food, but detested as such.