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Summary
- Lizards appear twice in Scripture, and the two passages could hardly disagree more.
- Leviticus 11:29-30 lists five kinds among unclean creatures. Translators disagree about several identifications, and the King James resolves the same uncertainty differently.
- Proverbs 30:28 names the lizard among four small creatures that are “exceedingly wise”: it can be caught with the hand, and is found in kings’ palaces.
- All four in that list are small and should not be able to do what they do — the ant with no commander, the locusts with no king, the lizard with no defence.
- Scripture assigns lizards no symbolic meaning, and gives no dream key (Genesis 40:8; Daniel 2:27-28).
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Leviticus 11:29-30; 19:26; Proverbs 30:24-28; 1 Corinthians 1:27; Genesis 40:8; Daniel 2:27-28). Translators’ disagreement over the creature names in Leviticus 11 is noted in the footnotes of most modern versions; the King James reads “tortoise,” “ferret” and “snail” where newer versions read lizards.
