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Creation 10(4):38, September 1988

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Snakes do eat dust!


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In Genesis 3:14 we read, ‘And the Lord God said unto the serpent… “upon your belly you shall go, and shall eat dust all the days of your life”.’ Since snakes do not really appear to eat dust, this has been taken as an example of either obvious metaphor (which seems reasonable) or an example of the Bible’s propensity to error, depending upon one’s bias.

In Micah 7:17 we read, ‘(The nations) shall lick the dust like a serpent’.

Once again we have the situation where, as more information has come to light, the Bible has been shown to be not only accurate, but accurate in minute detail. Snakes do deliberately and purposely eat and lick dust.


Therefore serpents really do lick dust and eat it.

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