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 חיה and ךךמש wild beats and reptils, the ame words that in the text before us, i. Gen. 28. are tranlated every moving thing, that moveth on the earth, which by no means can comprehend man, the grant being made to Noah and his ons, all the men then living, and not to one part of men over another : which is yet more evident from the very next words, ver. 3. where God gives every ךמש every moving thing, the very words ued, ch. i. 28. to them for food. By all which it is plain that God's donation to Adam, ch. i. 28. and his deignation, ver. 26. and his grant again to Noah and his ons, refer to and contain in them neither more nor les than the works of the creation the 5th day, and the beginning of the 6th, as they are et down from the 20th to 26th ver. incluively of the 1t; ch. and o comprehend all the pecies of irrational animals of the terraqueous globe, tho' all the words, whereby they are expreed in the hitory of their creation, are no where ued in any of the following grants, but ome of them omitted in one, and ome in another. From whence I think it is pat: all doubt, that man cannot be comprehended in this grant, nor any dominion over thoe of his own pecies be conveyed to Adam. All the terretrial irrational creatures are enumerated at their creation, ver. 25. under the names beats of the earth, cattle and creeping things, but man, being