Animals of the Bible

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Across
  1. 2. You can find me at Ein Gedi with my little hyrax neighbors
  2. 3. I am closely related to an elephant despite me looking like a little groundhog
  3. 5. My name in the tanach is "Zamer" and I am kosher
  4. 8. I am one of the animals gifted to King Solomon, and I love bananas.
  5. 9. I am the fastest land animal and I have the same biblical name as the Leopard
  6. 13. You should be as brazen as me to fulfill God's will
  7. 17. I am the symbol of Binyomin, one of the 12 tribes
  8. 19. I am mentioned as the hardest working animal
  9. 20. I swallowed Yonah because he refused to go to Ninvei to deliver a prophesy
  10. 21. I am the only kosher bug. The tradition for eating me is from Yemen
  11. 22. Pharoh is compared to me and I live in the Nile river
  12. 24. I attacked and ate children for mking fun of a prophet
  13. 25. I eat bones and I am the only animal with jaws strong enough to break an otritch egg
  14. 26. Rabbi Akivah saw me in the ruins of Jerusalem
  15. 27. I am a sign of spring and I am on the list of non kosher birds
  16. 28. I was Noah's first messenger
  17. 29. I helped king Solomon when the queen of Shiba challenged him with fake and real flowers
Down
  1. 1. My horns are branched and not hollow therefore making them unkosher for a shofar
  2. 4. Clue
  3. 5. I am Naphtali's tribal animal
  4. 6. Me and my friends filled Egypt during the secong plauge
  5. 7. I am the king of beasts and I am the symbol of Judah, one of the 12 tribes
  6. 10. I am the national bird of Israel, don't come near my nest or I will vomit on you
  7. 11. I am mentioned is the book of Job as an animal of great strength, I'm also known as the River Horse
  8. 12. VULTURE I am the king of birds and I am a scavenger
  9. 14. The Israelites ate me in the desert
  10. 15. I am one of the Shratzim, and I love eating cheese
  11. 16. I am the last animal on the list of non kosher birds, but I am not a bird
  12. 18. My tusks were imported from Africa and used to build King Solomons throne
  13. 22. I can leap higher than 3 meters in the air and catch birds midflight
  14. 23. Noah had to bring broken glass onto the Ark for me, because I do not have teeth and need to swallow sharp things to digest my food
  15. 27. I am the first animal mentioned in the bible and I lost my legs because I sinned