¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.

²⁶ The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

¹ Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? `Or' canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

⁵ And the coney, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

⁷ Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you.

² Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.