Lectures on Jewish Antiquities: Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 & 1803 |
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... Head , and have peculiar influence over their coun- sels and actions , so long as his life and understanding continued . For the same reason , when mankind had lost their common progenitor , and had branched out in- to several distinct ...
... Head , and have peculiar influence over their coun- sels and actions , so long as his life and understanding continued . For the same reason , when mankind had lost their common progenitor , and had branched out in- to several distinct ...
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... heads , or to mar the corners of their beards , " will ap pear important , when we consider it as a barrier against a magical custom of the heathen priests , who made this mode of treating their hair and beards essential to their idol ...
... heads , or to mar the corners of their beards , " will ap pear important , when we consider it as a barrier against a magical custom of the heathen priests , who made this mode of treating their hair and beards essential to their idol ...
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... heads , and mangling their flesh . These cruel rites of worship are expressly forbid- den to the Israelites . " Ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes ; ye shall not print any marks in your flesh ; for ye ...
... heads , and mangling their flesh . These cruel rites of worship are expressly forbid- den to the Israelites . " Ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes ; ye shall not print any marks in your flesh ; for ye ...
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... head of a house then selected his proportion of this lot ; and the rest was again subdivided according to the number of names in each family . If these were more than the lot would supply at twenty one acres per man , the defect was ...
... head of a house then selected his proportion of this lot ; and the rest was again subdivided according to the number of names in each family . If these were more than the lot would supply at twenty one acres per man , the defect was ...
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... head of the forces a proclamation was directed to be made , excusing every person from go- ing into the battle , who had either lately married a wife , built a house , or planted a vineyard ; as these circum- stances would naturally ...
... head of the forces a proclamation was directed to be made , excusing every person from go- ing into the battle , who had either lately married a wife , built a house , or planted a vineyard ; as these circum- stances would naturally ...
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Page 82 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 338 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 294 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 306 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 307 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 15 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 295 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 135 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
Page 21 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 296 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.