11 occurrences

'Gazelle' in the Bible

“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.

You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s handAnd like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.Behold, he is standing behind our wall,He is looking through the windows,He is peering through the lattice.

“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelleOr a young stag on the mountains of Bether.”

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelleWhich feed among the lilies.

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelle.

“Hurry, my beloved,And be like a gazelle or a young stagOn the mountains of spices.”

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,Or like sheep with none to gather them,They will each turn to his own people,And each one flee to his own land.

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