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Snail
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
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Snails and slugs are not very common in countries so dry in summer as Palestine. Hence, perhaps, the fact, that there is only one allusion to them in Scripture. This occurs in , where the figure seems to be more significant, if understood of snails without shells, i.e. slugs, rather than shell-snails, though true of both.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Snail'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/s/snail.html.
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Snail'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/s/snail.html.
