Holy Scripture
Leviticus 11:3
A church father on this verse
“With whom then should we live? With the just, he replies, again under a metaphor. Everything "of split hoof and chewing the cud" is clean, because the split hoof obviously is a sign of evenly balanced justice, which chews the cud of its own food of justice, the word, which enters from without through instruction. And,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Every beast parting the hoof and making divisions of two claws, and chewing the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.
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In context
1And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2Speak ye to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat of all beasts that are upon the earth.
— Leviticus 11:3 —
4But of these ye shall not eat, of those that chew the cud, and of those that part the hoofs, and divide claws; the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.
5And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.