Leviticus 11:20

All winged swarming things The same words as in Deuteronomy 14:19; swarming creatures which also fly, i.e. flying insects. A.V. obscures for the English reader the identity of expression by rendering here -all fowls that creep," and in Deuteronomy 14:19 -every creeping thing that flieth." In Deut. these things are all classed as unclean and not to be eaten. They are here further described as those -that go upon all four." All these swarming things have sixfeet, but the text describes their action as it appears to an ordinary observer, and, as in Leviticus 11:5, the language is popular, rather than scientific.