All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you.
Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.
All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
`Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four--an abomination it is to you.
Leviticus — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
2. These are the beasts which ye shall eat. The holy fathers, before the birth of Moses, knew what animals were unclean; of which fact Noah afforded a manifest proof, when, by God's command, he took into the ark seven pairs of the clean animals, and offered of them his…