Leviticus 11:30
The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stello, and the lizard, and the mole:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- mygale, et chamæleon, et stellio, et lacerta, et talpa.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μυγαλῆ καὶ χαμηλέων καὶ καλαβώτης καὶ σαῦρα καὶ ἀσπάλαξ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָאֲנָקָ֥ה וְהַכֹּ֖חַ וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַחֹ֖מֶט וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת
Haydock's commentary
Chameleon, feeds upon air, and assumes various colours. (Pliny viii. 33.) It resembles a lizard, as does the stellio, Pliny xxix. 4.
Lizard. Protestants, "snail." (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.