“partridge” in the Douay-Rheims Bible

The word partridge appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.

  1. 1 Kings 26:20 And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is hunted in the mountains.
  2. Ecclesiasticus 11:32 For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.
  3. Jeremias 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

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