PART IV.

_RITUAL SELF-WASHINGS._

SECTION XXV. _Unclean until the Even._—From expiatory rites. From contact with the unclean. Self-washing, 108

SECTION XXVI. _Grades of Self-washing._—1. The hands. 2. The hands and feet. 3. The clothes. 4. The clothes and flesh. 5. Shaving the hair, 111

SECTION XXVII. _Mode implied in the meaning._—The self-washings meant the active putting off of the sins of the flesh, 115

SECTION XXVIII. _The words used to designate the Washings._—1. Shātaph. 2. Kābas. 3. Rāhatz, 116

SECTION XXIX. _Mode of Domestic Ablution._—By water poured on. The patriarchs. Mode in Egypt. In the wilderness. Story of Susanna. Purgation of a concealed murder. Washing the feet at table, 119

SECTION XXX. _Facilities requisite._—The water drawn from wells by women. No vessels for immersion. The bath of Ulysses, 126

SECTION XXXI. _The Washings of the Priests._—Symbolism of the tabernacle. The laver. Priestly washings. The laver and river of Ezekiel. No immersions here, 128

SECTION XXXII. _Like these were the Self-washings of the People._—Designations and meaning the same. Immersion would have been without meaning, 134

SECTION XXXIII. _Purifyings of things._—One case of immersion. Minor defilements cleansed by this immersion and by washings. The major, by sprinkling, 136