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Snail

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By: James P. Boyd

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(snake). A lizard is meant (Lev. 11:30³⁰And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. (Leviticus 11:30)). The common snail, slug, or slime-snake is meant (Psa. 58:8⁸As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. (Psalm 58:8)). Snails abound in the Orient and are not eschewed as a food.

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