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Leviticus 11:6

The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cud;   Food;   Goat;   Hare;   Hoof;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Meat;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Clean and Unclean;   Hare;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Uncleanness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beast;   Hare;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Beast;   Clean, Cleanness;   Food;   Hare;   Leviticus;   Rabbit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Hare;   Leviticus;   Rock Badger;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hare;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Hare;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cud;   Hare;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hare;   Leviticus;   Lizard;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beasts;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Allegorical Interpretation;   Clean and Unclean Animals;   Eleazar (Lazar) B. Jose Ii.;   Hare;   Moses;   Ptolemy I;   Vegetarianism;   Yudan ben Manasseh;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
King James Version
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Lexham English Bible
and the hare, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided—it is unclean for you;
New Century Version
The rabbit chews the cud but does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.
Amplified Bible
'And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.
New American Standard Bible
The rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the hare, because he cheweth the cud, and deuideth not the hoofe, he shalbe vncleane to you.
Legacy Standard Bible
the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you;
Darby Translation
and the hare, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs—it shall be unclean unto you;
English Standard Version
And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
George Lamsa Translation
And the hare, because it chews the cud but it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.
Christian Standard Bible®
hares, though they chew the cud,
Literal Translation
and the hare, though it brings up the cud, yet it does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Hare cheweth cud also, but deuydeth not ye hoffe in to two clawes, therfore is he vncleane vnto you.
American Standard Version
And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
Bible in Basic English
And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Hare, though he chaweth the cud, yet because he deuideth not ye hoofe, he is therefore vncleane to you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
King James Version (1611)
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but diuideth not the hoofe, he is vncleane vnto you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
English Revised Version
And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
Berean Standard Bible
The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for also he chewith code, but departith not the clee;
Young's Literal Translation
and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it [is] to you;
Update Bible Version
And the hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof: he [is] unclean to you.
World English Bible
The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
New King James Version
the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you;
New Living Translation
The hare chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
New Life Bible
Do not eat the rabbit. For it chews its food again, but does not have feet that are hard and divided. It is unclean to you.
New Revised Standard
The hare, for even though it chews the cud, it does not have divided hoofs; it is unclean for you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the hare, because though she cheweth the cud, yet the hoof, she parteth not, - unclean, she is to you;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.
Revised Standard Version
And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 2 "Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land. 3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud. 4 However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided. 5 The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided. 6 The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided. 7 The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud. 8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hare: Deuteronomy 14:7

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Genesis 9:19
These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 11:1
The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
Judges 10:14
Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!"
1 Kings 18:27
At noon Elijah mocked them, "Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened."
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
Luke 1:51
He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the hare, because he cheweth the cud,.... Or, "though he chews" it:

but divideth not the hoof, he [is] unclean to you; and so not to be eaten; so Plutarch q says, that the Jews are said to abstain from the hare, disdaining it as a filthy and unclean animal, and yet was in the greatest esteem with the Romans of any four footed beast, as Martial says r: Moses, as Bochart s and other learned men observe, is the only writer that speaks of the hare as chewing the cud; though they also observe, that Aristotle t makes mention of that in common with those that do chew the cud, namely a "coagulum" or "runnet" in its stomach; his words are,

"all that have many bellies have what is called πυετια, a coagulum or runnet, and of them that have but one belly, the hare;''

only that: this creature being prone to lust, may be an emblem of lustful persons, who give up themselves to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness, Ephesians 4:19.

(The "hare" is this verse may be an animal that is now is extinct but was alive at the time of Moses. It is only other mentioned in Deuteronomy 14:7. Editor.)

q Sympos. l. 9. c. 5. r L. 13. Epigr. 87. s Ut supra, (Hierozoic par. 1. l. 3.) c. 31. col. 977. t De Part. Animal. l. 3. c. 15. & Hist. Animal. l. 3. c. 21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 11:6. The hare — ארנבת arnebeth, as Bochart and others suppose, from ארה arah, to crop, and ניב nib, the produce of the ground, these animals being remarkable for destroying the fruits of the earth. That they are notorious for destroying the tender blade of the young corn, is well known. It is very likely that different species of these animals are included under the general terms שפן shaphan, and ארנבת arnebeth, for some travellers have observed that there are four or five sorts of these animals, which are used for food in the present day in those countries. See Harmer, vol. iii., p. 331, edit. 1808. Some think the mountain rat, marmot, squirrel, and hedgehog, may be intended under the word shaphan.


 
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