Deuteronomy 14:5 (WEB)
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
Fathers and councils · 1
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“And if we are to inquire regarding the impossibilities of the law, we find an animal called the goat-stag, which cannot possibly exist, but which, as being in the number of clean beasts, Moses commands to be eaten; and a griffin, which no one ever remembers or heard…” — editor's note: Tragelaphus; “wild goat,” Auth. Vers. Deut. xiv. 5; Heb. וֹקּאַ, ἅπαξ λεγ.
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