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Tortoise

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Lizard.

Tortoise is the KJV/ASV rendering at Leviticus 11:29 of a Hebrew creeping-thing in the dietary law; UPDV reads "great lizard" ("the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind"). See Lizard.

Click here to read the full topic on this subject: Lizard