[PatrickHenry]

It appears the Bible is lumping rabbits and camels together in this regard.

Google is amazing: Kosher animal quiz. (I have no idea if this is authoritative.)

[Junior]

You may eat the following: locusts of every variety; all varieties of bald locust; crickets of every variety; and all varieties of grasshopper, but all other winged swarming things that have four legs shall be an abomination for you. Lev. 11: 22-23

Locusts have six legs, dammit! This passage implies they have only four.

[e p1uribus unum]

From the website:

"You may eat the following: locusts of every variety; all varieties of bald locust; crickets of every variety; and all varieties of grasshopper, but all other winged swarming things that have four legs shall be an abomination for you. Lev. 11: 22-23......"

Not to be picky, but grasshoppers, crickets and locusts, have six legs, making the word "other" possibly incorrect. An elaboration I found in my King James allows any hopping insect which would include leafhoppers and such.


Interpretation is absolutely required for this to make sense.

Same goes for ferns, mosses, mushrooms, slimemolds and bacteria. Not listed in Creation, even though the first three would have been obvious to people.

I am certain G-d's word is inerrant. I'm not at all sure the people who wrote it down were.