Antiquities of the Jews ... Compiled from Authentic Sources: And Their Customs Illustrated from Modern Travels, Volume 2W. W. Woodward, 1823 - Jews |
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... taken to distress an invading enemy ; order of encampment among the Jews ; camps on hills ; religious ceremony before fighting ; method of fighting ; their cruelty afterwards . The transplanting of nations ; making of treaties ; return ...
... taken to distress an invading enemy ; order of encampment among the Jews ; camps on hills ; religious ceremony before fighting ; method of fighting ; their cruelty afterwards . The transplanting of nations ; making of treaties ; return ...
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... taken off the covers wherein they were wrapt up , they showed him the membranes . So the king stood admiring the thinness of these membranes , and the exactness of the joinings , which could not be perceived , so exactly were they ...
... taken off the covers wherein they were wrapt up , they showed him the membranes . So the king stood admiring the thinness of these membranes , and the exactness of the joinings , which could not be perceived , so exactly were they ...
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... taken by Alexander the Great , Callisthenes collected the astronomical observations of the Chaldeans for 1903 years , and transmitted them to Aristotle , at the desire of the Macedonian king . We know for certain , that three eclipses ...
... taken by Alexander the Great , Callisthenes collected the astronomical observations of the Chaldeans for 1903 years , and transmitted them to Aristotle , at the desire of the Macedonian king . We know for certain , that three eclipses ...
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... taken from accidental circumstances . Accord- ingly , Maimonides says , that " the divination by ser- pents , in the later Jewish writings , meant as if , when a morsel of meat fell from one's mouth , or his staff from his hand , he ...
... taken from accidental circumstances . Accord- ingly , Maimonides says , that " the divination by ser- pents , in the later Jewish writings , meant as if , when a morsel of meat fell from one's mouth , or his staff from his hand , he ...
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... taken down in the evening , and buried in the burying ground that was allotted by the magistrate for that purpose . For there were two burying places for common male- factors ; the one for those who were slain by the sword , and ...
... taken down in the evening , and buried in the burying ground that was allotted by the magistrate for that purpose . For there were two burying places for common male- factors ; the one for those who were slain by the sword , and ...
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Page 74 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Page 423 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 110 - If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death : I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Page 221 - I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Page 523 - And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. (Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me...
Page 241 - And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Page 145 - And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel...
Page 493 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 244 - And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 221 - ... and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 and the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee...