Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews: Viz. Of Their Courts of Judicature. Laws Concerning Tithes. Institution of Their Priesthood. Their Liturgy. Their Schools. Their Feasts, Fasts, Coins, Weights and Measures

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Samuel Ballard, 1706 - 200 pages

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Page 118 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 25 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had : and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.
Page 119 - Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail ; that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
Page 57 - All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by ý statute for ever : it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Page 50 - Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
Page 58 - And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing...
Page 48 - And this is thine : the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel : I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever ; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
Page 139 - The principal schools in Babylon were those of Nahardea, Sora and Pumbeditha; they flourished in Babylon till the year of the world 4797, as appears from the names of the chief doctors preserved in the chronicles of the Jews. At this...
Page 130 - For I know him, that he will COMMAND his CHILDREN and his Houfhold after him, and they fhall KEEP THE WAY of the LORD, to do JUSTICE and Judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath ipoken of him.
Page 3 - The thing that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee, for this thing is too heavy for thee...

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