| Haggadah - 1862 - 116 pages
...knoweth eight? I, saith Israel, know eight. there are EIGHT DAYS PRECEDING CIRCUMCISION, seven days in the week, six books of the Mishnah, five books of the Law, four matrons, threee patriarchs, two tables of the covenant ; but ONE is our God who is over heaven and earth. Who... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 528 pages
...Israel) know One: One is God, who is over heaven and earth. Who knoweth two ? I (saith Israel) know two : Two tables of the covenant; but One is our God who is over the heavens and the earth." (And so forth, accumulating up to the last verse, which is-) " Who knoweth thirteen ? I (suith Israel)... | |
| A. Ben Shemesh (pseud.) - 1885 - 80 pages
...Jewish Passover Service3. " Who knoweth seven ? I know seven. Seven days of the week, six sections of the Mishnah, five books of the Law, four matrons, three patriarchs, two tables of the covenant, One is our God, who is in heaven and earth." We remember too that Enoch is the seventh from Adam. Again,... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 532 pages
...preceding childbirth, eight days preceding circumcision, seven days of the week, six books of the ilishnah, five books of the Law, four matrons, three patriarchs,...; for they are not yet quite forgotten in country pluces. An old Latin version runs : " Unus est Deus," etc., and one of the stillsurviving English forms... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 524 pages
...stars, ten commandments, nine months preceding childbirth, eight days preceding circumcision, seveu days of the week, six books of the Mishnah, five books...matrons, three patriarchs, two tables of the covenant ; bat One is our Q-od who is over the heavens and the earth." This is one of a family of counting-poems,... | |
| George Frederick Abbott - Folklore - 1903 - 392 pages
...1 The Book of Day i, vol. I. p. 332. 4 Contes Populaires Grecs, edited by J. Pio, Copenhagen, 1879. nursery tale of the old woman who couldn't get her...places. An old Latin version runs : ' Unus est Deus,' etc., and one of the still-surviving English forms begins, ' One's One all alone, and evermore shall... | |
| George Frederick Abbott - Folklore - 1903 - 392 pages
...know One : One is God, who is over heaven and earth. Who knoweth two ? I (saith Israel) know two : Two tables of the covenant ; but One is our God Who is over the heavens and the earth.' (And so forth, accumulating up to the last verse, which is — ) ' Who knoweth thirteen 1 I (saith... | |
| Lina Eckenstein - Comparative literature - 1906 - 248 pages
...who is over the heavens and the earth ..." And so forth to the last verse, which is as follows : — Who knoweth thirteen? — I, saith Israel, know thirteen...is our God, who is over the heavens and the earth. The same chant adapted to matters of Christian belief, but carried only from one to twelve, is current... | |
| Lewis Montefiore Isaacs, Mathilde S. Schechter - Hymns, Hebrew - 1910 - 72 pages
...of the Mishna, Five the Books of the Law, Four the Mothers of Israel, Three tho Patriarchs, Two the Tables of the Covenant, but ONE is our God, who is over heaven and earth. Q.— Who knoweth Eight Î A.— Eight? I know : There are the Eight lights of Hanllka.... | |
| Arthur John Newman Tremearne - Folk-lore, Hausa - 1913 - 608 pages
...indicated by the narrator), and they may correspond in some degree to a Jewish poem, the last verse of which is " Who knoweth thirteen ? I saith Israel know...is our God Who is over the heavens and the earth."* I do not say that there is any direct connection between the above, in fact, another man told me that... | |
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