Snail

Twice in the Old Testament

The common name snail is used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.

Listed as unclean.

Leviticus 11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

Part of a prayer for deliverance from his enemies.
Psalm 58:8 As a snail (slug) which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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