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Selected Verse: Leviticus 11:5 - King James

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Le 11:5 King James And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the coney--not the rabbit, for it is not found in Palestine or Arabia, but the hyrax, a little animal of the size and general shape of the rabbit, but differing from it in several essential features. It has no tail, singular, long hairs bristling like thorns among the fur on its back; its feet are bare, its nails flat and round, except those on each inner toe of the hind feet, which are sharp and project like an awl. It does not burrow in the ground but frequents the clefts of rocks.
 
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19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;