“Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.”
You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many legs; it is unclean. The ground-creature prohibition is extended to cover all locomotion types: belly-crawlers (snakes), four-legged ground creatures (excluded from the clean categories), and many-legged creatures (centipedes, millipedes). The comprehensive locomotion coverage — belly, four legs, many legs — closes every possible gap in the ground-creature prohibition. No ground-moving creature escapes the unclean designation.
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