Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine. It has been calculated that in Western Syria and Palestine from two thousand to two thousand five hundred plants are found, of which about five hundred probably are British wild-flowers. Flute a musical instrument, probably composed of a number of pipes, mentioned Dan. Flutes were in common use among the ancient Egyptians.
Poisonous flies exist in many parts of Africa, for instance, the different kinds of tsetse.
Some interpreters regard it as the Blatta orientalis, the cockroach, a species of beetle. Sheep-folds are mentioned Num. The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians. In the wilderness their ordinary food was miraculously supplied in the manna. Food was prepared for use in various ways.