ELTB CC 18-19
Creeping things are those things which reproduce quickly. The things listed will all be things that God does not want to spread because the things they represent are of the flesh, not of the spirit. [1]
- creeping things... on the earth sharats שרץ - increase abundantly [in the flesh], the ox shur שר death ץ.
The weasel is considered to be the smallest carnivore, or meat eater. It hunts and eats mice, voles, rabbits, birds, eggs, etc. It may dance before it's cornered prey to calm it before killing it with a single bite to the neck. It will steal the dens that other animals have dug. They are territorial and may claim up to twenty acres of land as their own. They run with short jumps and stand up to spy out the territory.
Though the weasel is not a large animal, it knows how to succeed by stealth, deceit, and viciousness. Adam named it 'understanding the teaching of this age'. Some animals are stealthy and sneak up on their prey. Some are vicious, and some have methods of deceit and camouflage. The weasel seems to have learned from them all.
The world teaches us to succeed at any cost; no matter who we hurt. God teaches us to love.
- weasel choled חלד - age, world, time. Understanding ח the teaching ל of the word ד of this age חלד.
- ↑ ▸ ± Le 11:29-31 These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, 30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 31 These [are] unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
