Manners & Customs
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
as [the teeth] of lions....
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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew
the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the
bridegroom,...
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What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou
fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another]
beloved, that thou dost so charge us?...
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Enjoyed a status in Israel not assigned to them in the East
now. Mahometanism especially has degraded women in Asia and
Africa; anciently they had a liberty not now accorded them,
veiling was not then required as now: e.g. Rebekah, Genesis
24:64-65; Rachel, Genesis 29:11; Sarah, Genesis 12:14-19;
Miriam led a band of women with triumphant song...
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FIGURATIVE
Le 26:13; Isa 9:4; 10:27; Jer 2:20; 5:5; 28:2,4,10;
30:8;
La 1:14; 3:27; Mt 11:29,30; Ac 15:10...
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(1.) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding
to
them the traces by which they might draw the plough,
etc. (Num.
19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood
called _'ol_.
(2.) In Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 12 the word in the
Authorized
Version rendered "yoke" is _motah_, which properly
means a
"staff," or as in the Revised Versio...
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And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner
of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed
blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in
their hands....
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From the scanty notices contained in the Bible we gather
that, the wine-presses of the Jews consisted of two
receptacles of vats placed at different elevations, in the
upper one of which the grapes were trodden, while the lower
one received the expressed juice. The two vats are mentioned
together only in Joe 3:13 "The press is full: the fats
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And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which
he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy
corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy
herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
LORD thy God always....
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Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures
of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred
baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much]....
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