Creeping Things: A General Term for Animals
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Leviticus 11:20–23, 29–31, 42
All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. / However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. / Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Psalm 104:20, 25
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. / Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.