Inquiry:
Leviticus 11:6 reads, “And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean to you.” Rabbits do not chew the cud!
“Gerah” means to chew cud or also perhaps grain, or berries. It does NOT mean dung, and there is a perfectly adequate Hebrew word for that, which could have been used. Furthermore, the phrase translated “chew the cud” in the KJV is more exactly “bring up the cud”. Rabbits do not bring up anything; they let it go all the way through, then eat it again.
The description given in Leviticus is inaccurate. Rabbits do eat their own dung; they do not bring anything up and chew on it.
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