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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Letter" to "Lightfoot, John" Volume 16, Slice 5

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Chapters

8. vv. 26-29 (on firstlings and devoted things) are supplementary

LITERATURE.--_Commentaries_: Dillmann-Ryssel, _Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus_ (1897); Driver and White, _SBOT. Leviticus_ (English, 1898); B. Baentsch, _Exod. Lev. u. Num._ (H...

9. Act 1871, the jurisdiction, duties and command exercised by the lord

lieutenant were revested in the crown, but the power of recommending for first appointments was reserved to the lord lieutenant. By the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907,...

1. VOLUME XVI, SLICE V

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10. mm. The mean result of nearly 100 fairly accordant determinations

While this work was in progress Simon Newcomb obtained the official support necessary to make a determination on a yet larger scale. The most important modifications made in the...

6. v. 19), shows traces of a priestly origin, might be regarded as an

abridgment of Lev. xi. But the Deuteronomic version uses [Hebrew: tame] _unclean_ throughout (vv. 7, 10. 19), while Lev xi. from v. 11 onwards employs the technical term [Hebrew...

3. xxxiii. 8-11), Levi is a collective name for the priesthood, probably

that of (north) Israel. He is the guardian of the sacred oracles, knowing no kin, and enjoying his privileges for proofs of fidelity at Massah and Meribah. That these places (in...

2. xxvii. 1 it is a crooked and piercing serpent, the dragon of the sea;

cf. Psalms civ. 26. The etymology of the word is uncertain, but it has been taken to be connected with a root meaning "to twist." Apart from its scriptural usage, the word is ap...

7. vv. 16-24; (3) the enjoyment of sacred offerings limited to (a)

priests, if they are ceremonially clean, xxi. 1-9, and (b) members of a priestly family, vv. 10-16; (4) animals offered in sacrifice must be without blemish, vv. 17-25; (5) furt...

5. vii. 22-27, which prohibit the eating of fat and blood, are addressed

to the community at large, and were, doubtless, inserted here in connexion with the sacrificial meal which formed the usual accompaniment of the peace-offering. Chap. vii. 28-34...

4. vii. 1-7, together with certain regulations for the priest's share of

the burnt- and meal-offerings (vv. 8-10); (6) peace-offerings, vii. 11-21. Then follow the prohibition of eating the fat or blood (vv. 22-28), the priest's share of the peace-of...

11. Part I. From the beginning of the Gospels to the Baptism of our

Saviour._ The second part _From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after_ followed in 1647, and the third _From the first Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to t...