Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, Volume 1Woodward, 1804 |
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... give the upper garment a cut on the right side , and then rend it an hand's breadth . This is done . for the five following relations , brother , sister , son , or daughter , or wife ; but for father or mother , the rent is on the left ...
... give the upper garment a cut on the right side , and then rend it an hand's breadth . This is done . for the five following relations , brother , sister , son , or daughter , or wife ; but for father or mother , the rent is on the left ...
Page 50
... gives a very curious account of the superstition , on ac- count of which he conceives the seething of a kid in its dam's milk to have been prohibited . " It was a custom of the ancient heathens , when they had gathered in all their ...
... gives a very curious account of the superstition , on ac- count of which he conceives the seething of a kid in its dam's milk to have been prohibited . " It was a custom of the ancient heathens , when they had gathered in all their ...
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... family , and to bake for them no more than the bread for one day . This usage still continues in some places , and gives peculiar force to these words . HARMER , vol . i . p . 269 . No. 56. - NUMBERS v . 17 . The priest 58 LEVITICUS .
... family , and to bake for them no more than the bread for one day . This usage still continues in some places , and gives peculiar force to these words . HARMER , vol . i . p . 269 . No. 56. - NUMBERS v . 17 . The priest 58 LEVITICUS .
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... gives an account exactly similar to the above . Speaking of the Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the ...
... gives an account exactly similar to the above . Speaking of the Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the ...
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... give it great energy . He threw stones and dust at him , who probably had been honoured by having the ground moistened , that the dust might not rise , when he walked out . So also Acs xxii . 23. Chardin has made an ob- servation ...
... give it great energy . He threw stones and dust at him , who probably had been honoured by having the ground moistened , that the dust might not rise , when he walked out . So also Acs xxii . 23. Chardin has made an ob- servation ...
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Page 327 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 304 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand : and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews!
Page 414 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Page 295 - I like not to take her; then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Page 326 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 183 - David will I lay upon his shoulder ; so he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 47 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 35 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Page 127 - Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Page 323 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.