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The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn`t part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
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A Practical, Observable Law
Commentators explain that while hares are not true ruminants by modern standards, they move their jaws in a way that appears like chewing cud. The law was based on these kinds of observable characteristics, providing clear, practical marks for the average person to distinguish between clean and unclean animals.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but. —Better, though he cheweth the cud, yet.
Other nations, too, shunne…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud Or, "though he chews" it:
but divideth not the hoof, he …
Presbyterian
These laws seem to have been intended,
As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…
