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Title: A Biblical and theological dictionary: explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: Watson, Richard, 1781-1833 Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subjects: Bible Theology
Publisher: New-York, Pub. by B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal church
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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legged kind, the traveller says: TheArabs have another, though a more laborious,method of catching these birds ; for, observingthat they become languid and fatigued afterthey have been hastily put up twice or thrice,they immediately run in upon them, and knockthem down with their zerwattys, or bludgeonsas we should call them. Precisely in thismanner Saul hunted David, coming hastilyupon him, putting him up incessantly, in hopesthat at length his strength and resourceswould fail, and he would become an easy preyto his pursuer. Forskal mentions a partridgewhose name in Arabic is Tcurr; and Lathamsays, that, in the province of Andalusia inSpain, the name of the partridge is churr;both taken, no doubt, like the Hebrew, fromits note. PASSOVER, noD, signifies leap, passage.The passover was a solemn festival of theJews, instituted in commemoration of theircoming out of Egypt; because the night beforetheir departure the destroying angel that slewthe first-born of the Egyptians passed over the
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PAS 729 PAU houses of the Hebrews without entering them,because they were marked with the blood ofthe lamb, which, for this reason, was calledthe paschal lamb. The following is what Godordained concerning the passover : the monthof the coming out of Egypt was after this tobe the first month of the sacred or ecclesiasticalyear; and the fourteenth day of this month,between the two evenings, that is, between thesuns decline and its setting, or rather, accord-ing to our reckoning, between three oclock inthe afternoon and six in the evening, at theequinox, they were to kill the paschal lamb,and to abstain from leavened bread. The dayfollowing, being the fifteenth, reckoned fromsix oclock of the preceding evening, was thegrand feast of the passover, which continuedseven days ; but only the first and seventh dayswere peculiarly solemn. The slain lamb wasto be without defect, a male, and of that year.If no lamb could be found, they might take akid. They killed a lamb or a kid in each family ;

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