Leviticus 11:29: The mouse is listed among the many "creeping things" that were considered unclean for the Israelites to eat or touch.
Isaiah 66:17: The prophet Isaiah condemns those who engage in idolatrous practices by mentioning them as eating "swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse," stating they will be consumed together.
1 Samuel 6: When the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant, the LORD plagued them with tumors and a plague of mice. To appease God, they made five golden mice to send back with the Ark as a guilt offering, along with five golden images of the tumors that had afflicted them.
Symbolism: In the biblical context, the mouse represents uncleanness, destruction, and divine judgment. Its destructive nature in agriculture made it a potent symbol for the consequences of opposing God's will.
FLESH
Galatians 5:19-21: Lists the "works of the flesh" as sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, envy, drunkenness, and orgies, warning that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:16: "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh".
Romans 8:12-13: "So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live".
Ref: word review puzzle. 12 a.m., 11/2.
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