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and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
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Verse 10. Soul … in birds, and so forth The covenant of God is made with animals, only in as much as they are subservient to man. D.—The Egyptians adored most of them; and many oriental nations, and even philosophers, pretended they had intelligent souls, and could speak a rational language, which some of them would have the people believe they could understand. Calmet.—This was the case of those great impostors Apollonius of Tyena, Mahomet, and so forth Bible.—Moses shews sufficiently that beasts were neither divinities nor rational. Calmet.
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