“These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,”
Of the animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard. The ground-moving creatures section lists the small animals that creep, scurry, and crawl: weasels, rats, and lizards. These are the animals closest to daily domestic life — the creatures found in houses, grain stores, and fields. The listing of these common household pests as unclean communicates the comprehensive coverage of the clean/unclean system: the distinctions apply to the most ordinary encounters, not only to exotic or ceremonially significant animals.
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