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3. Rentes, 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 arc not clean, by two, the male and his 
female," &c. Some persons, however, might think with 
Spencer, De legibus Hebrmorum, 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 dean and unclean animals, uses 
the words in this passage, as they also suppose he speaks 
of the Sabbath in the second chapter, — namely, by antic i- 
