“Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.”
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. The four permitted flying insects are all varieties of the locust family: the locust, the katydid, the cricket, and the grasshopper. These are the same insects that John the Baptist ate in the wilderness (Matthew 3:4), and that Joel 1:4 describes consuming the land's vegetation. The permitted insects are all economically significant in the ancient world — both as pests and as protein sources. The covenant's dietary law permits the consumption of the most commonly available protein source for those in desert or wilderness environments.
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