Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 11:23
But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
i.e. All such except those now mentioned; the word other being here understood out of the former verse, without which there might seem to be a contradiction between this and that verse. But the words may be, and by the vulgar Latin are, thus rendered, But all flying creeping things which have only four feet; which word only is to be gathered out of Lev 11:20,21; i.e. which have not those legs above and besides their feet mentioned Lev 11:21. And so all the verses agree well together.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
But all [other] flying creeping things,…. Excepting the four sorts before mentioned, wherefore we rightly supply the word “other”:
which have four feet; or more; the Vulgate Latin version adds, “only”, but wrongly; for those that have more are unclean, and forbidden to be eaten, excepting those in the preceding verse; and most creeping things that fly have six feet, as the locusts themselves, reckoning their leaping legs into the number; though it may be observed, that those creatures that have six feet have but four equal ones, on which they walk or creep; and the two foremost, which are longer, are as hands to them to wipe their eyes with, and protect them from anything that may fall into them and hurt them; they not being able to see clearly because of the hardness of their eyes, as Aristotle a observes, and particularly it may be remarked of the fly, as it is by Lucian b, that though it has six feet it only goes on four, using the other two foremost as hands; and therefore you may see it walking on four feet, with something eatable in its hands, lifting them up on high, just after the manner of men: now all such creatures that have four feet or more, excepting the above,
[shall be] an abomination unto you; abhorred as food, and abstained from.
a Ut supra. (Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 6.) b De Musca.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(23) But all other flying creeping things.Better, but all other winged creeping things. Besides the above-named four species and their kindreds, all other locusts, as well as insects of any kind, are to be abhorred as food.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 11:23 But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
Ver. 23. Which have four feet. ] See on Lev 11:21 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Lev 11:20 – General Lev 11:27 – General Lev 11:41 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 11:23-25. All other That is, which have not those legs above and beside their feet, mentioned Lev 11:21. For these ye shall be unclean If they did either eat, or so much as touch the carcasses of them, they were not, for that day, to come into the tabernacle, to eat of any holy thing, or to converse freely with their neighbours. And as a sign of this legal uncleanness, (Lev 11:25,) they were to bathe in water, which was the usual rite of purification in such cases. Until the even They were to keep apart by themselves all that day: for their day began in the evening. The uncleanness continued only till the evening, says Henry, to signify that all ceremonial pollutions were to come to an end by the death of Christ in the evening of this world. And we must learn by daily renewing our repentance every night for the failings of the day, and by a fresh application to the blood of sprinkling, to cleanse ourselves from the pollutions which we contract by them, that we may not lie down in our uncleanness.