* Ten fat.
Ne 5:17,18
* harts.
Dr. Shaw understands {ayil} as the name of the genus,
including all the species of the deer kind, whether they are
distinguished by round horns, as the stag, or by flat ones, as
the fallow deer, or by the smallness of the branches, as the
roe.
* roe-bucks.
See note on De 15:22.
* fallow-deer.
{Yachmur,} rendered {bubalus} by the Vulgate, probably the
buffalo; and though "the flesh of a buffalo does not seem so
well tasted as beef, being harder and more coarse," yet in our
times, "persons of distinction, as well as the common people,
and even the European merchants, eat a good deal of it, in the
countries where that animal abounds." Niebuhr, Descrip. de
l'Arab p. 146.
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