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John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 14:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean, etc.] Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases; “all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;” (See Gill on “<031120>Leviticus 11:20-21”).
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