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 female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;
and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,
Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
Voices3
And the owl,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The owl - בת היענה bath haiyaanah, the daughter of vociferation, the female ostrich, probably so called from the noise they make. In the lonesome part of the night, says Dr. Shaw, the ostriches frequently make a very doleful and hideous noise, sometimes resembling the roar of the lion; at other times, the hoarser voice of the bull or ox. He adds, I have heard them groan as if in the deepest agonies. - Travels, 4th edition, p. 4
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
No less than twenty species of birds, all probably then known, are mentioned under this category, and the inference follows that all which are not mentioned were allowed; that is, fowls which subsist on vegetable substances.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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.
Through
Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie…
I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable…
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb…
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches11
For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
Therefore do not be partakers with them.
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
