And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;
and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;
Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.
Voices1
Of all clean fowls you may eat. [4.] They are further forbidden, First, To eat the flesh of any creature that died of itself, because the blood was not separated from it, and, besides the ceremonial uncleanness which it lay under (from Lev. xi. 39 ), it is not wholesome food, nor ordinarily used among us, except by the poor.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
leads to
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches3
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
