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3. Retries, translated " creeping thing, including 

 all sorts of less animals creeping on the 

 ground, vermin, all the different genera of 

 worms, serpents, and such creatures as have 

 no feet, or numerous small feet, compre- 

 hending not only all the serpentine class, 

 but all the smaller sort of animals that seem 

 to creep rather than to walk. 



4. ADAM, INTELLECTUAL BEING. 



This classification, and the terms of it, are 

 used with the strictest regularity by Moses, not 

 only throughout the book Genesis, but also all 

 his other writings. 



In the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, the same 

 distribution of the animal kingdom is adopted, 

 but subdivided still farther into the denominations 

 " clean" and " unclean," or those creatures 

 allowed for food or prohibited, a distinction 

 which, from the words of Moses, would seem to 

 have been known in the time of Noah.* 



* Genesis, vii. chapter. " Of every clean beast thou 

 shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female, and 

 of beasts that are not clean, by two, the male and his 

 female," &c. Some persons, however, might think with 

 Spencer, De legibus Hebrceorum, lib. 1. c. v. that Moses, 

 who wrote the book Genesis, while conducting the 

 Israelites through the wilderness, and after the delivery 

 of the law, and when, consequently, they were acquainted 

 with the distinctions of clean and unclean animals, uses 

 the words in this passage, as they also suppose he speaks 

 of the Sabbath in the second chapter, namely, by antici 



