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They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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Verse 5. Basilisk, or viper. Calmet.—The young ones “burst through the viper’s sides.” Pliny x. 62.—So the works of the wicked are useless or destructive.
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