What does the Bible say about beetle?

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The Bible mentions the beetle in the context of Israel's ceremonial food laws, identifying certain hopping insects as clean for food. In Leviticus 11:22, the King James Version includes the beetle among the permitted kinds, alongside locusts, bald locusts, and grasshoppers; other translations render the Hebrew term differently. This instruction belonged to the covenant regulations given to Israel and taught holiness through distinctions between clean and unclean. Christians are not bound to these dietary laws as such, since Christ fulfilled the ceremonial law and declared foods clean. Yet the passage still reminds believers that God is holy and calls his people to live in grateful obedience to him.