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</ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is
</ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is
sixteen [[cubit]]s long.<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is a forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], and according to [[Yehudi L. B. Lewysohn|Lewysohn]]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [[Marcus Jastrow|Jastrow]] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''. —" '''טגרוס ''' '''m''' (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) ''tiger''. "</ref>
sixteen [[cubit]]s long.<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is a forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], and according to [[Yehudi L. B. Lewysohn|Lewysohn]]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [[Marcus Jastrow|Jastrow]] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''. —" '''טגרוס ''' '''m''' (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) ''tiger''. "</ref>
== References ==
== References ==