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Ramban on Leviticus 11:2/רמב"ן על ויקרא י״א:ב׳
אמִכָּל הַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר עַל הָאָרֶץ - פְּשׁוּטוֹ: מִכָּל הַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר עַל פְּנֵי כָל הָאָרֶץ, כְּטַעַם מִכָּל אֲשֶׁר בָּעוֹלָם. וּמִדְרָשׁוֹ (תו"כ פרשה ב ו): מִפְּנֵי שֶׁיֵּשׁ חַיּוֹת בַּיָּם וְאֵין תּוֹרָתָן בַּסִּימָנִין הַלָּלוּ אֶלָּא כַּדָּגִים, לְפִיכָךְ אָמַר "אֲשֶׁר עַל הָאָרֶץ" לְהוֹצִיא מַה שֶׁבַּיָּם.
1AMONG ALL THE BEASTS THAT ARE ON THE EARTH. The plain meaning thereof is “among all the beasts that are on ‘the face of the earth,” the expression being similar to “all the beasts that are in the world.” But the interpretation of the Rabbis is as follows:151 2:6. Since there are creatures in the sea whose law does not depend on these signs, but is like that of the fish, therefore He said, that are on the earth, excluding what is in the sea.