385
Exod. xxiii. 13; xxxiv. 23.
386
Levit. xxiii. 29.
387
Levit. xvi., xxiii. 26-32.
388
Levit. xvii. 3-5.
389
Levit. i-vi.
390
Levit. vii. 23-34, and in other passages.
391
Supr. p. 183. Exod. xxx. 1-9.
392
Levit. vi. 12, 13; ix. 17.
393
Numbers xv. 38; Levit. xix. 19.
394
Levit. xi. 1-44.
395
Levit. xvii. 15.
396
Levit. xvii. 14.
397
Levit. xiii., xiv.
398
The spoils taken in war are also to be purified; Numbers xxxi. 20-24.
399
Levit. xii. 3. The Arabian tribes in the north of the peninsula, who were nearly related to the Hebrews, observed this custom, and the Phenicians also, while the Philistines did not observe it; Herod. 2, 104. In Genesis (xxi. 4; xvii. 12-14, 25) it is expressly mentioned that Ishmael was not circumcised till his thirteenth year, but Isaac was circumcised at the proper time, on the eighth day. This shows that circumcision was a very ancient custom among the Israelites, and at the same time indicates that among the Arabs the boys were not circumcised till later years, which may have been the case in the older times among the Hebrews also. Cf. Joshua v. 1-9; Joseph. "Antiq." 1, 12, 3.
400
Exod. iv. 24; cf. De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 282.
401
Numbers xxxiii. 50-56; Exod. xxiii. 29 ff; xxxiv. 12-16; Vol. i. 500.
402
Levit. xviii. 21; xx. 2, 27; Exod. xxii. 18.
403
Levit. xix. 27-29.
404
Deut. xxi. 11-14; cf. Numbers xii. 1.
405
Levit. xix. 35, 36.
406
Exod. xxiii. 10, 11; Levit. xxv. 20.
407
Levit. xxv. 24-31.
408
Exod. xxii. 25-27; Levit. xxv. 35-38.
409
Numbers xxxv. 30; Levit. xix. 15.