FISH, in Hebrew, Dag. The Hebrews place Fish among creeping things. We have very few Hebrew names for any particular Levit. xi. 9, 10, 11, 12. Deut. xiv. 9, 10.Fish, and I do not know that there are any in the sacred Text. Moses is content to say in general, that all sorts of river, lake, and sea-fish might be eaten, provided they had scales and fins; and that such as have not these, are unclean and forbidden. Notwithstanding St. Barnabas in his Epistle has a citation, as from Scripture, You shall not eat of the lamprey, the manyfeet, or the cuttle-fish. We have already spoken of the Crocodile, and shall speak of the Whale in its place.
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