Oriental Customs, Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures: By an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics |
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... probably suggest to the reader the reasons of the prohibition . Mr. Bruce tells us , that , " not long after our losing sight of the ruins of this ancient capital of Abyssinia , we overtook three travellers driving a cow before them ...
... probably suggest to the reader the reasons of the prohibition . Mr. Bruce tells us , that , " not long after our losing sight of the ruins of this ancient capital of Abyssinia , we overtook three travellers driving a cow before them ...
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... probably , in that case , as the Abyssinians do at this day ; they cut a part of its throat , so that blood might be seen on the ground , but nothing mortal to the animal followed from that wound : but , after lay- ing his head upon a ...
... probably , in that case , as the Abyssinians do at this day ; they cut a part of its throat , so that blood might be seen on the ground , but nothing mortal to the animal followed from that wound : but , after lay- ing his head upon a ...
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... probably nothing more than a kind of rug girded to the beast . PARKHURST's Heb . Lex . p . 213 . No. 13. xxiv . 2 , 3. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house , that ruled over all that he had , put , Ipray thee , thy hand ...
... probably nothing more than a kind of rug girded to the beast . PARKHURST's Heb . Lex . p . 213 . No. 13. xxiv . 2 , 3. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house , that ruled over all that he had , put , Ipray thee , thy hand ...
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... probably became the occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish- ing remains are scattered up and down the Asiatic and the European world . MAURICE'S Indian ...
... probably became the occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish- ing remains are scattered up and down the Asiatic and the European world . MAURICE'S Indian ...
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... done this , he shall be no farther answerable ; if he neglects to act thus , he shall make good the loss . " Probably this last circumstance is alluded to in Amos iii . 12 . No. 20. - xxxi . 27. Wherefore didst thou flee 18 GENESIS .
... done this , he shall be no farther answerable ; if he neglects to act thus , he shall make good the loss . " Probably this last circumstance is alluded to in Amos iii . 12 . No. 20. - xxxi . 27. Wherefore didst thou flee 18 GENESIS .
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