And every creeping thing. — Besides the eight reptiles which defile by touching their carcass, and which are enumerated in Levitic…

And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth ,
&c.] Nothing is called a creeping thing, as Jarchi says, but w…

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…