Even though four feet has been used in the scripture in regard to fowls to signify two wings and two legs ; four pairs of toes is simply my addition: in the scripture, regarding fowls (birds), four feet means two wings and two legs, and my first explanation was very correct.
Leviticus (K.J.V)
{11:13} And these [are they which ye] shall have in
abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they
[are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the
ospray, {11:14} And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
{11:15} Every raven after his kind; {11:16} And the owl,
and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his
kind, {11:17} And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the
great owl, {11:18} And the swan, and the pelican, and the
gier eagle, {11:19} And the stork, the heron after her kind,
and the lapwing, and the bat.
{11:20} ALL FOWLS THAT CREEP,
GOING UPON [ALL] FOUR, [SHALL BE] AN ABOMINATION UNTO YOU.
{Yet in regards to insects four has been used to mean pairs of legs, inclusive of the wings, which are considered another pair of legs.}
continuation...
{11:21} Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing
that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet,
to leap withal upon the earth; {11:22} [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.
{Back to fowls with "four feet"}
cont...
{11:23} But all [other] flying
creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an
abomination unto you. {11:24} And for these ye shall be
unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be
unclean until the even. {11:25} And whosoever beareth
[ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the even.
{other beasts}
{11:26} [The carcases] of every
beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor
cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that
toucheth them shall be unclean. {11:27} And whatsoever
goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on
[all] four, those [are] unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean until the even. {11:28} And
he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: they [are] unclean unto you.
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