by the
term "the averter of ills," and the Vulgate "caper emissarius."

214 A tongue-shaped piece of scarlet wool.

215 A cab contained 2.8333 pints.

216 A seah contained one peck and one pint.

217 On the altar.

218 The size of the priest's hands was proportionate to his stature.

219 That he had been struck dead.

220 Supposed by some to be the SUKHRAH in the present Mosque of OMAR.
From its position, however, it seems more probably to have been the
foundation of the altar of burnt-offerings. This sacred rock is
sixty feet across and five feet high. It is pierced quite through,
to allow, as some think, the blood of the sacrifices to flow off
into the "Noble Cave" and the canals beneath it.

221 A priest continued to stir the blood to prevent its coagulation.

222 Or, "as a thrasher."

223 Or, "as a thrasher."

224 Or, "the clean place."

_ 225 I.e._, the gardeners became liable for a trespass-offering.

226 R. Judah addresses in imagination the goat.

227 It seems, according to the Talmud, that there was no "laying on of
hands" on either the morning or evening sacrifice; or on any other
public sacrifice, excepting the scapegoat and the bullock, when the
congregation had sinned through ignorance.

228 Lev. xvi. 30.

229 Or viaduct, or causeway.

230 Supposed to be Alexandrine Jews, so called from hatred to the
Babylonians.

231 Zuk is supposed by Lieutenant Conder of the Palestine Exploration
Fund to be the modern el Muntar, about six and a half miles east of
Jerusalem in the direction of the Dead Sea, and on the way to the
ruins of Mird (Mons Mardes). A well near the place is still called
Bir es Suk.

_ 232 I.e._, broken to pieces.

233 Maimonides says that those connected with the red heifer and
scapegoat were rendered unclean because these animals were
"sin-bearing" animals. All that Israelites now have to offer on the
day of atonement is for males a white cock (because gever in Hebrew
signifies a man and a cock), and for females a hen. And they pray,
"Let this be my substitute--this my atonement. This cock goeth to
death, but may I be gathered and enter into a long and happy life,
and into peace."

234 "Place of the hollow."

235 Bereitha, or External Traditions.

236 Isaiah i. 18.

237 Lev. xvi.

238 Lev. xx