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Compare Lev. 11. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deu 14:5 The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the…
Moses here tells the people of Israel,
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
pelican ḳa-ath, LXX, πελεκάν. Tristram (108) suggests the roseate pelican, P. onocrotalus.
vulture raḥamah, Ar. rakhim, -a small white carrion eagle," migratory, and haunting the abodes of men, one of…