Leviticus 11:42

New American Bible - revised edition

Whether it crawls on its belly, goes on all fours, or has many legs—any creature that swarms on the earth—you shall not eat them; they are loathsome.

Cross References

Genesis 1:20

Then God said: Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall pasture together, and the lion shall eat hay like the ox— but the serpent’s food shall be dust. None shall harm or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Leviticus 11:41

All the creatures that swarm on the ground are loathsome and shall not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:43

Do not make yourselves loathsome by any swarming creature nor defile yourselves with them and so become unclean by them.

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a snake, like crawling things on the ground; They will come quaking from their strongholds; they will tremble in fear of you, the Lord, our God.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 3:7

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.

Titus 1:12

One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”