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  • In all the passages in the Old Testament in which flies are alluded to, otherwise than in connection with the Egyptian infliction, the word used in the Hebrew is _zevor_, which the Septuagint renders by the ordinary generic term for flies in general, [Greek: muia], "_musca_" (Eccles. x.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

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