Rather, “All creeping things which have wings,” etc. The word for creeping things may be regarded as coextensive with our word vermin. It is derive…

All the fowls that creep. —Better, all creeping things which have wings. The swarming animals or insects, which,…

All fowls that creep
Or rather "every creeping thing that flies"; for what are designed are not properly fowls, but,…

These laws seem to have been intended,

1. As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…