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Leviticus 11

Lev. 11:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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All fowls
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
that creep
sherets (Hebrew #8318)
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
KJV usage: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
Pronounce: sheh'-rets
Origin: from 8317
, going
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
upon all four
'arba` (Hebrew #702)
from 7251; four
KJV usage: four.
Pronounce: ar-bah'
Origin: masculine oarbaah {ar-baw-aw'}
, shall be an abomination
sheqets (Hebrew #8263)
filth, i.e. (figuratively and specifically) an idolatrous object
KJV usage: abominable(-tion).
Pronounce: sheh'-kets
Origin: from 8262
unto you.

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Lev. 11:23,27• 23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
 27And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. (Lev. 11:23,27)
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Deut. 14:19• 19And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. (Deut. 14:19)
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2 Kings 17:28‑41• 28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
 29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
 30And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
 31And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
 32So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
 33They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
 34Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
 35With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
 36But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
 37And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
 38And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
 39But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
 40Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
 41So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day. (2 Kings 17:28‑41)
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Psa. 17:14• 14From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. (Psa. 17:14)
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Matt. 6:24• 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Matt. 6:24)
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Phil. 3:18‑19• 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (Phil. 3:18‑19)
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2 Tim. 4:10• 10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (2 Tim. 4:10)
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1 John 2:15‑17• 15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:15‑17)
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Jude 10,19• 10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
 19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. (Jude 10,19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.