anness.

129 Exod. xiii. 7.

_ 130 I.e._, he is to be put to death forthwith.

131 Fruit-sauce; a mixture of dates, raisins, and other fruits, to
recall the memory of the mortar from which the bricks in Egypt were
made.

132 Fragments of chickens and dough left to ferment.

133 A compound of barley, wild saffron, and salt, one-third of each.

134 A dough or unripe grain lid put over the liquid to absorb the dregs
from the foam of fermentation.

135 Literally, "deaf"; that is, dough which does not rise, or that
sounds dull when it is struck.

136 Exod. xi. 19.

137 An eminence from which there was a clear view of the temple.

138 The burden means that the man is forbidden to work.

139 See treatise on the Sabbatical year, ix. 5, etc.

140 Lest the Gentiles should set them to work on the Sabbath.

141 Part of July and August. The ninth of Ab is the anniversary of the
threefold destruction of the Temple.

142 Deut. vi. 4.

143 Lev. xxiii. 15.

144 Lev. xix. 9, 10.

145 Because the poor might eat them untithed, thinking they were Peah.

146 To show his abhorrence of his father's idolatry.

147 2 Kings xviii. 4.

148 Lest the people should substitute medicine for God.

149 2 Kings xviii. 16.

150 2 Chron. xxxii. 4.

_ 151 I.e._, 2.30 P.M.

152 Exod. xii. 6.

153 To prevent its coagulating.

154 Exod. xxiii. 18.

155 Josephus mentions the number of lambs slain at a particular passover
to have been numbered by the high priest, and they were found to
have been 256,500. Allowing not less than ten persons to the eating
of each lamb, he computes those present at the feast to have been
2,700,200 persons.--Josephus' "Wars," vi. 9, 3.

156 Exod. xii. 6.

157 Psalms cxiii.-cxviii.

158 They washed the court indirectly by stopping a canal of water which
overflowed the court; they afterward opened it, when all flowed off
again.

159 Taken from the intermingled blood of the many offerings.

160 See "Measurements," ii. 3.

161 The following subtle discussion arises out of the distinction
between "work" forbidden by the law of God and "resting from work"
enjoined by tradition.

162 The sprinkling of a person unclean from touching a dead body when
the passover fell on a Sabbath.

163 This refers to the second chagigah--the feast-offering of indi