6.

479 Ps. lxxxii. 1.

480 Mal. iii. 16.

481 Exod. xx. 24.

482 1 Chron. xxix. 14.

483 Deut. iv. 9.

484 Deut. iv. 9.

485 Gen. ix. 6.

486 Deut. xiv. 1.

487 Prov. iv. 2.

488 Jer. xvii. 6.

489 Jer. xvii. 8.

490 Ps. cxix. 99.

491 Prov. xvi. 32.

492 Ps. cxxviii. 2.

493 1 Sam. ii. 30.

494 The Rabbis reckon that the expression "God said" is used nine times
in the first chapter of Genesis, and that the tenth expression is to
be found in the first verse, "In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth."

495 Num. xiv. 22.

496 The shameer is the worm which knows how to hew stones, and helped
Solomon to build the Temple.

497 Num. xv. 20.

498 Deut. xxxiii. 21.

499 1 Kings xiv. 16.

500 Prov. viii. 21.

501 Ps. lv. 23.

502 Or, perhaps, "for meditation."

503 Prov. viii. 14.

504 Prov. xi. 22.

505 Ex. xxxii. 16.

506 Num. xxi. 19.

507 Ps. lv. 13.

508 Prov. iii. 35.

509 Prov. iv. 2.

510 Esther ii. 22.

511 Prov. iv. 22.

512 Prov. iii. 8.

513 Prov. iii. 18.

514 Prov. i. 9.

515 Prov. iv. 9.

516 Prov. iii. 16.

517 Prov. iii. 2.

518 Prov. xvi. 31.

519 Prov. xvii. 6.

520 Isa. xxiv. 23.

521 Prov. vi. 22.

522 Ps. cxix. 72.

523 Hag. ii. 8.

524 Prov. viii. 22.

525 Isa. lxvi. 1.

526 Ps. civ. 24.

527 Gen. xiv. 19.

528 Exod. xv. 16.

529 Ps. xvi. 3.

530 Exod. xv. 17.

531 Ps. lxxviii. 54.

532 Isa. xliii. 7.

533 Isa. xlii. 21.

534 See the treatise on "Measurements," chap. i.

535 Membranes over the fat.

536 In the form of an apple.

537 A cor was equal, according to the Rabbis, to 44.286 gallons, but
Josephus reckons it to have been 86.696 gallons.

538 A seah, according to the Rabbis, was 1.4762 gallon.

539 Or, of "the treasurers."

540 In this chamber were kept the "seals" or "tokens" given to those
persons who bought their offerings from the Levites. These "seals"
were of four sorts, and were respectively inscribed with "calf" or
"kid," according to the offerings to be presented; and with the word
"male" when the offering was to be a ram; and "sinner" when it was
to be a sin-offering.

541 Others read "a basket."

542 Or jug.

543 Ezek. xliv. 2.

544 Jericho is about eighteen miles distant from Jeru