OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 11:6

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The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

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Verse 6. Cheweth. Some copies of the Septuagint add not, which agrees with the nature of the hare; though the people to whom Moses addresses himself were of a different persuasion. Its hoof is not divided into two parts only, and therefore it is accounted unclean.

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