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2. Water. 
Including all creatures supposed to have 
originated in the water, residing on it, or 
frequenting it occasionally. 
1. Sheretz, animalculas, translated “ the moving 
creatures that hath life.’ 1 By this word, is 
meant all sorts of creatures which creep in 
the water, in opposition to those which 
creep on the earth, called ground reptiles, 
verse 25 ; every animal capable of motion, 
which either has no feet, or feet so short 
that it rather creeps than walks. It in- 
cludes all aquatic creeping things, as 
worms, polypi, lobsters, crabs, shrimps. 
2. Tannim, a word erroneously translated “ great 
whales,” whereas it is properly the generic 
name for all the large aquatic animals. 
3. Ouph, translated “ fowl,” but the word really 
includes every creature which lifts itself 
above the earth on wings, whether birds 
or insects, exactly corresponding to the 
Saxon word ,jleon. 
3. Earth. 
1. Behemah, translated “ beast of the earth,” 
including all animals capable of domestica- 
tion, and feeding on vegetables. 
2. Chiah, translated “ beast of the field,” in- 
cluding wild beasts living on flesh. 
