Leviticus 11:22
That you shall eat, as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophiomachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- comedere debetis, ut est bruchus in genere suo, et attacus atque ophiomachus, ac locusta, singula juxta genus suum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ταῦτα φάγεσθε ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν· τὸν βροῦχον καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ, καὶ τὸν ἀττάκην καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ, καὶ τὴν ἀκρίδα καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῇ, καὶ τὸν ὀφιομάχην καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶת אֵ֤לֶּה מֵהֶם֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אֶת הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה לְמִינ֔וֹ וְאֶת הַסָּלְעָ֖ם לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וְאֶת הַחַרְגֹּ֣ל לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וְאֶת הֶחָגָ֖ב לְמִינֵֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Locust. The three former are species of the same kind. The bruchus is a young locust, without wings, (St. Augustine in Psal. civ.,) and the attachus the least of all. (Pliny, xxix. 5.) The ophiomachus is large, "encounters serpents," and is destitute of wings. The nations called Acridophagi, received their name from their feeding upon locusts, which are the food of the common people in Syria and Africa. See Pliny, xi. 29, &c. Clenard, in 1541, wrote from Fez, that he had seen the sky darkened with clouds of locusts, which the people endeavoured presently to destroy, and filled waggons with their bodies, for food. Kirsten says, they are very delicious. Arnulph assures us, that they are a finger's breadth, and are fried in oil by the poor. (Raban. in Matthew iii. 4.) See Joel ii. (Calmet)
There is no need, therefore, of having recourse to crab fish and wild pears, for John the Baptist's food, as Beza has done. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.