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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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any fish but such as had both fins and scales (Lev.xi.1-28). It was in this general way that the hog was forbid-ben, but as it was commonly eaten in the East, this applicationof the prohibition of the law attracted more attention than .•he rest. Blood and fat, the large lobe of the liver, and thekidneys were also forbidden. Poultry was used but sparingly,pigeons and the common fowl being the only domestic birdskept in Palestine, except the fatted fowl provided for thetables of Solomon and Nehemiah (1 Kings iv. 23: Neh. v.18). Eggs are only twice mentioned as articles of food.Though fish with fins and scales were allowed, it does notseem that much use was made of this indulgence : the opera-tions of fishing were clearly well known, however (Job xix.6: Isa. li. 20 : Job xli. 1: Isa. xix. 8): fish-ponds are men-tioned in Sol. Song (vii. 4): fish were even brought by thePhoenicians across the country, from the Mediterranean toJerusalem (Neh. xiii. 16), and one of the gates of the city,
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CUSTOMS—FOOD AND MEALS. 281 called the Fish-gate, seems to have been appropriated as theplace of sale (2 Ohron. xxxiii. 14: Neh. iii. 3). Among insects, it may be noticed, that locusts were per-mitted to be eaten. Lev. xi. 22, and were a common article offood in the East, Matt. iii. 4. Bread was not baked, as with us, in loaves, but in cakes,rolls, and large thin biscuits, each family baking its own, andthat daily. The modes of baking were various; the thickerroll or cake was baked upon the heated hearth; the thinbread upon metal plates, or around the sides of earthenwarevessels, or of a pit in the floor, Gen. xviii. 6: Lev. ii. 2, 4, 5.This work, like that of grinding corn, was at first performedby the wives and daughters of families, Gen. xviii. 6: 2 Sam.xiii. 6, 8: Jer. vii. 18; but was in time abandoned in somecases to servants, 1 Sam. viii. 13. The bread in common useneeded not to be cut, but was broken, Isa. lviii. 7: Lam. iv.4: Matt. xiv. 19. The Jews had generally two meals

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