[Avodah] frogs

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:01:43PM -0600, Lisa Liel wrote:
> That, and the fact that taninim are a lot more likely to be crocs.

Taninim must be snake-like, since Aharon turns the mateh into a sanin in
7:10, and the chartumim did as well (v. 10). But the mateh is described as
the one that turned into a nachash in v 16. It could be a back reference
to when Moshe turns it into a snake by the seneh (4:3). But in any case,
I would think the implication is that a sanin is snake or staff shaped.

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-Micha

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