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God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
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Verse 20. Creeping: destitute of feet like fishes, which move on their bellies. Menochius.—Fowl. Some assert that birds were formed of the earth, but they seem to have the same origin as fishes, namely, water; and still they must not be eaten on days of abstinence, which some of the ancients thought lawful, Socrates verse 20. To conciliate the two opinions, perhaps we might say, that the birds were formed of mud, ( Calmet.) or that some of the nature of fish, like barnacles, might be made of water and others of earth, Calmet. 11. 19.—Under: Hebrew on the face of the firmament, or in the open air. Bible.
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