and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;
and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,
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…