The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
Parallel translations
- KJV The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
- BSB The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
- NKJV The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.
- NASB ¶The high mountains are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock hyrax.
- NLT High in the mountains live the wild goats, and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.
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Cross-references · 5
- Prov 30:26The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.
- Job 39:1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
- Lev 11:5The cony, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- 1 Sam 24:2Then 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.
- Deut 14:7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
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