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ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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Verse 23. Buffaloes. Yachmur means also a sort of wild-goat, like a stag. Deuteronomy 14:5. Bochart, Anim. i. B. iii. 22.—Fowls. Some Rabbins explain barburim, (or borbrim) of capons, or birds from Barbary; as if this name had been known in the days of Solomon. Calmet.—There was an ancient Ethiopian Barbary on the Persian gulf, (Bochart) with which the Rabbins were not acquainted. Calmet.
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