Of birds, of clean beasts, of unclean
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καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν πετεινῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν καθαρῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν μὴ καθαρῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν πετεινῶν καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
The catalogue of creatures repeats and expands, now naming ἑρπετά, “creeping things,” for the first time in this chapter alongside birds and beasts — the three broad categories (flying, four-footed, creeping) that Genesis 1 already used to sort land and air life. This verse runs on without a full stop into verse 9.
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