OLD TESTAMENT

Job 39:3

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They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.

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Verse 3. Roarings. They pretend that these animals bring forth with great difficulty. Psalms 28:9. Vatab. and so forth—Aristotle (verse 2. and vi. 29.) asserts, that they receive the male bending down, as Hebrew may be here explained. “They bend, they divide their young,” as they have often two; “and they leave their strings” at the navel, and so forth Calmet.

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