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Deuteronomy 4:18

Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,.... As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 4:1-40

This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the water under the earth The Hebrews conceived the sea not only as lower than and round the earth, but as passing beneath it (the earth being established or fixed over it) and so forming the source…