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"I would like to go
birding in the Holy Lands.

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For sparrows alone, there is
a great biblical tradition

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with 40 instances of tzippor,
Hebraic chirping or twittering

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in the Old Testament, and two
strouthion sparrows in the New.

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According to my
Bible dictionary,

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the birds above
mentioned are found

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in great numbers in
Palestine and are

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of very little value,
selling for the merest trifle

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and are thus strikingly
used by our Savior,

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Matthew 10:29, as an
illustration of our Father's

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care for his children.

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Unfortunately, the
authorized version

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renders the Hebrew
indifferently as bird or fowl,

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ignoring the great variety such
as the yellow-vented bulbul,

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clamorous reed
warbler, crested honey

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buzzard, lappet-faced vulture."