...to appear before the Lord.' The law also says, ' They shall not appear before the Lord empty. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee.' 8. Of the passover, the feast of unleavened bread, the sacred historian tells us : ' It is a night...

...of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles ; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee." It would appear, from these words, that there was something left to the gratitude and generosity of...

...unquestionably, that which conforms most nearly to the equitable principle laid down in the Scriptures : " Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee."* This is the principle laid down in the divine law, respecting the pecuniary support of the worship...

...enjoined upon them : " They shall not," said their lawgiver, " appear before the Lord empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee." Daut. xvi. 16, 17. The giving of alms to the poor, is enjoined with as much explicitness as other duties....

...Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee ; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart." And agreeably...

...command thee. l,i But if thou desirest to eat, and tin« eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eus according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy citii'f : whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is...

...of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which lie hath given thee. 18 IT Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD...

...Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee." (Deut-xii. 15.) He makes no mention of any mysteries connected with the art of slaughtering, the ignorance...

...the feast of tabernacles : and they shall not appear before 17 the LORD empty: every man shall give t eth. 3 Heb. a hard tiling . Ь Or, A Fuura of Datid 2 Qi, let tkem be cut off for the 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout...

...of weeks, And in the feast of tabernacles ; And they shall not appear before the Lord empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which He hath given thee." See, also, Exodus, xxiii. 14 — 17; — xxxiv. 18 — 26; and Lev. xxiii. The Anglo-Saxons had also...