¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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

¹ "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

⁵ The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

⁷ Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

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