¹⁸ The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

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

¹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

⁵ And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

⁷ But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

² Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.