explain this expression by Deut. xviii. 8. The priests were divided
into twenty-four Watches. Each Watch ministered for a week in the
Temple. These Watches were again subdivided into seven "Father's
Houses," and each "Father's House" officiated for a day in the
Temple. A dispensation from fasting was granted to the priests on
duty, that they might not be weak in the service of the Sanctuary.

333 This means the officiating priests.

334 The delegates were the representatives of the congregation, who
attended at the public sacrifices, and prayed on their behalf.

335 This was a book written in Chaldee, as is proved by the quotations
from it.

336 Amos iv. 7.

337 A stone on which lost property was deposited, and publication of it
was made, so that its owner might reclaim it.

338 Prov. xxiii. 25.

339 Ps. cxxxvi.

340 Num. xxviii. 2.

341 Gen. i. 6, etc.

342 Deut. vi. 4, etc.

343 Part of March and April.

344 Part of June and July.

345 Part of July and August.

_ 346 I.e._, "thieves of the pestle and dried figs"; because when
forbidden by Jeroboam to go up to the Temple with the first-fruits
and wood, they deceived the watchers by saying they were only going
to press figs.--Jer. Tal.

347 Part of August and September.

348 Part of December and January.

349 Antiochus Epiphanes.

350 Prov. xxxi. 30, 31.

351 Sol. Song, iii. 11.

352 The feast-offering ("chagiga") was the offering of individual
worshippers, and was quite distinct from the sacrifices of the whole
congregation. See "Treatise on the Passover," vi. 4, note.

353 Exod. xxiii. 14.

354 Worth perhaps 3d.

355 Jer. Tal. says "Tabernacles."

356 Deut. xvi. 17.

357 Eccl. i. 15.

358 From motives of delicacy.

359 This must be done only by one (Deut. iv. 32).

360 Ezek. x.; Isa. vi.

361 This decision is for private sacrifices, but for public sacrifices
there seems (according to the Talmud) to have been no "laying on of
hands," except in the case of the scapegoat and the bullock, when
the congregation had sinned through ignorance.

_ 362 I.e._, the Sadducees (Lev. xxiii. 15).

363 There are reckoned six degrees of uncleanness: The father of
fathers, the fathers, the first, second, third, and fourth children
of defilement. There are altogether twenty-