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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... servant Michael , ( a simple fellow , incapable of any invention ) about the same circumstance , and must say , that he commonly agreed with his master , as to the chief points . The description Mr. Bruce makes concerning the bloody ...
... servant Michael , ( a simple fellow , incapable of any invention ) about the same circumstance , and must say , that he commonly agreed with his master , as to the chief points . The description Mr. Bruce makes concerning the bloody ...
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... 2 , 3. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house , that ruled over all that he had , put , Ipray thee , thy hand under my thigh , and I will make thee swear by + 1 the Lord . ] The present mode of swearing GENESIS . 13.
... 2 , 3. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house , that ruled over all that he had , put , Ipray thee , thy hand under my thigh , and I will make thee swear by + 1 the Lord . ] The present mode of swearing GENESIS . 13.
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... servant might swear with one hand under his master's thigh , and the other stretched out to Heaven . As the posterity of the patriarchs are describ- ed as coming out of the thigh , it has been supposed , this ceremony had some relation ...
... servant might swear with one hand under his master's thigh , and the other stretched out to Heaven . As the posterity of the patriarchs are describ- ed as coming out of the thigh , it has been supposed , this ceremony had some relation ...
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... servants there as in Europe . So Solomon supposes they were extremely- poor that had not a servant . Prov . xii . 9 . HARMER , vol . ii . p . 366 . VOL . I. No. 19. - xxx . 32. I will pass through GENESIS . 17.
... servants there as in Europe . So Solomon supposes they were extremely- poor that had not a servant . Prov . xii . 9 . HARMER , vol . ii . p . 366 . VOL . I. No. 19. - xxx . 32. I will pass through GENESIS . 17.
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