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, Volume 1C. Whittingham and sold by Williams and Smith, 1807 - Bible |
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... give them the book ; they put their left hand underneath , and the right over it . Whether , among the patriarchs one hand was under , and the other upon the thigh , is not certain ; possibly Abraham's servant might swear with one hand ...
... give them the book ; they put their left hand underneath , and the right over it . Whether , among the patriarchs one hand was under , and the other upon the thigh , is not certain ; possibly Abraham's servant might swear with one hand ...
Page 22
... 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 31
... gives us a different apprehen- sion of the meaning of these words than we should otherwise form . Miriam the prophetess , the sister of Aaron , took a timbrel in her hand , and all the women went out after her , with timbrels and dances ...
... gives us a different apprehen- sion of the meaning of these words than we should otherwise form . Miriam the prophetess , the sister of Aaron , took a timbrel in her hand , and all the women went out after her , with timbrels and dances ...
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... the East induces the people to be very frugal in using it . Rauwolff ( p . 192. ) gives the following account of their management : " They make in their tents or houses an hole about a foot and an half deep LEVITICUS . 39.
... the East induces the people to be very frugal in using it . Rauwolff ( p . 192. ) gives the following account of their management : " They make in their tents or houses an hole about a foot and an half deep LEVITICUS . 39.
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... gives so great an heat that the pot groweth so hot as if it had stood in the middle of a lighted coal heap , so that they boil their meat with a little fire , quicker than we do ours with a great one on our hearths . " As the Israelites ...
... gives so great an heat that the pot groweth so hot as if it had stood in the middle of a lighted coal heap , so that they boil their meat with a little fire , quicker than we do ours with a great one on our hearths . " As the Israelites ...
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Page 311 - 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 66 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 243 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 376 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 286 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Page 310 - 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 222 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Page 141 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 398 - 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 297 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.