Leviticus Chapter 11 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Leviticus 11:6

And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.
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BBE Leviticus 11:6

And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.
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DARBY Leviticus 11:6

and the hare, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you;
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KJV Leviticus 11:6

And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
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WBT Leviticus 11:6

And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof: he is unclean to you.
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WEB Leviticus 11:6

The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
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YLT Leviticus 11:6

and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it `is' to you;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, There is little doubt that the same animal as our hare is meant. Neither the hare, however, nor the hyrax chews the cud in the strict sense of the words. But they have the appearance of doing so. The rule respecting chewing the cud was given to and by Moses as a legislator, not as an anatomist, to serve as a sign by which animals might be known to be clean for food. Phenomenal not scientific language is used here, as in Joshua 10:12, "as we might speak of whales and their congeners as fish, when there is no need of scientific accuracy" (Clark). "All these marks of distinction in the Levitical law are wisely and even necessarily made on the basis of popular observation and belief, not on that of anatomical exactness. Otherwise the people would have been continually liable to error. Scientifically, the camel would be said to divide the hoof, and the hare does not chew the cud. But laws for popular use must necessarily employ terms as they are popularly understood. These matters are often referred to as scientific errors; whereas they were simply descriptions, necessarily popular, for the understanding and enforcement of the law" (Gardiner).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but.--Better, though he cheweth the cud, yet. Other nations, too, shunned the flesh of hares. The Parsees considered the hare as the most unclean of all animals, and the ancient Britons abstained from eating it because of the loathsome disorders to which the hare is subject. Like the rabbit, or the hyrax, the hare has not the peculiar stomach of the true ruminant; but, like the rabbit, the hare, when sitting at rest, so moves its jaws that it appears to masticate. As the object of the legislator was to furnish the people with marks by which they were to distinguish the clean from the unclean animals, he necessarily adopted those which were in common vogue, and which alone were intelligible in those days.