Whether men or beasts, &c., all that breathed the same air with man, all that lived in the same element which man by his sins had infected; whereby the fishes are excepted, as living in another element. See Poole on "Genesis 2:7".
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Genesis 7:22
22 All in whose nostrils was the breathf of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.