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Genesis 24:8

24:8

free <05352> [clear.]

back <07725> [only.]


Deuteronomy 29:12

29:12

may enter <05674> [thou shouldest.]

may enter <05674> [enter. Heb. pass.]

This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

oath <0423> [into his oath.]




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