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Fishing from the earliest times - Blog

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—JEWS NO HUNTERS 413nation help <strong>the</strong> Hebrews, for apart <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> fact of <strong>the</strong> indisputableand immeasurable superiority of <strong>the</strong> Assyrian civilisationwe discover no sign of angling in Israel.As in <strong>the</strong>ir fishing, <strong>the</strong>y were " out for " <strong>the</strong> meat, not for<strong>the</strong> sport, so was it, I fear, in <strong>the</strong>ir hunting. If <strong>the</strong>y foundno pleasure in <strong>the</strong> chase, <strong>the</strong>y assuredly delighted in <strong>the</strong> eatingof game and were dexterous trappers of animals. Theirmethods were :{a) By digging a pitfall for <strong>the</strong> larger animals, e.g. for alion in 2 Sam. xxiii. 20 ;{b) By traps, which were set in <strong>the</strong> runs of <strong>the</strong> animals(Prov. xxii. 5) and caught <strong>the</strong>m by <strong>the</strong> leg (Jobxviii. 9), or were set underground {ibid. 10) ;and(c) By nets of various kinds—for an antelope in Isaiah(li. 20, R.V.).

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