HABoamc Notf^ on Exonm.
Number of vxksbs in V'tUek alumoth (Exodus) 1!^. We mnbol of this number ia o"; alq}h k' denoting IMOO, r«sft 1 200, and tdA B 9.
The middU verse is ver. 28. al chap. xxii. T^cu AaU net reailt Ood, nor carte At rvUr (ff" t^pee^e.
Its partuhiotk, or larger sections, are 1i. lite symbol •oT this is the word ri, laa. IxvL 1. Wbxbx istteAotue that ye vnU build unto me? In >iriiieb ai^ H stands fer 1, and yod < for 10.
Its gedarim are 29. The symbol of which is taken from Psalm xix. 3. ifeAaveh. Ni^U -unto night bhowkfji roBTH knowledge. In which word, yod *> stands for 1^ dulh n for ^ vau > for 6, and he r^ for 6, amountiu to 29.
ItMpirkey, ptraJcim, or present chapters, 40. Tae symbol of which IB >3V3 bdibbo, taken bcm Psalm xxxvii. 31. The law of Ood it is hib hxabt. Id this word, beih a stands for 2, lamed 'j for 30, beih a for 2, and vam for 6, amounting to 40.
The open eeetiont are 69.-^7116 doM etdions are 95. Total 164. The symbol of whieb is iijm-' yitSdeca. HTBiNOTHait Tun oul iff ^ott. In which numeriea] word, ain y staitds for 70, tameeh d for 60, eaph i for 20, yod ■> for 10, and daleth n for 4, making together 164.
But on these suhjMta important to somc^ and trifling to Others see what ia said m the cooeluding note on Qufcsis.
' ^ preceding notes I have liad frequent occasion to refer to Dr. Shaw s account of the different stations of the toaehiea, of which I promised an abstract in diis place. Hiis will doubtless be acceptable to every re«ler wlu> Knows that Dr. Shaw travelled over the same grouifd; and carefiiU?, in person, noted every spot to viadi reference is made in the preceding chapters.
After havine endeavoured to prove that GoAen waa that pan of the Heliopolitan NotnoL or of die land of Rameses, which lay in the neighbourhood of Catro, MaUa-reah, and Biehbem, and that Cairo might be Rameses, eapiud of the district of that name, where the Israelites luS^ their rmdezvous before they departed out of Egypt, he lakes up the lex^ and iwoceeds thus:
"Pfow, Utt ptradventure, (Exod. xiii. 17.) vhtn the Hebrew* saw tmr thty ehouldrepent and return to Egyptt Ood did Ttet lead them through the way of Ou land qfUu '^fl^W t?*-JEL**f ^ HeroopMa in midland road, orbyRsUssA, TlbtA aod >o doiig the Mowost ttnnwd OoMo, and AMotsn,) otthougft ttaTwa* As nmrmt, faot
he led them Aaovr Anwgft Ou way of the wiUUrMo qf the Red tea. Tbxn are accordingly two roads through which the laraelites might have been conducted Imn Cmiro to Pihahiroth, on the bonks of the Red sea. One of them lies through the valleys, as ihey are now called, of Jendily, Rumeleah, and Baid^th^ bounded on each aide hj the mountains of the lower lliebais. TTw other liea faiglier, having the nordiem ran^ of diese mountains, mountains of MocaiUf) running parallel With it on the ri^t hand, and the desert of the Egyptian Arabia, whidi lies all the wav open to the land of the PhiUttine* on the left About tne middle of this range we mav turd short upon our ri^t hand into the valley of Baideak, tbroiKli a remarirable breach or discoDtinuanon, in which we anerwaid cimtinued lo the very bank of the Red eta. £ber, a amall city upon the northern point of it, at ibe diatanee of thirty hours, or ninety Roman miles &om Cairo^ liea a little to the northward of the promontory that ia Cnrmsd fay this same range of mountainB,^cal)ed at preseni JUlaekah, as that which bounds the valley of Baiaeah to die southward is called Qewoubee. See the annexed map.
'*Tba road then, through the valley of Boideab, whidi is aome hours loiuerlhaD theother open road, which ^ads up directly from Cairo to Suex, was, in all probeJiility, the very road which 'Jie IsraeliUs took to Pihahiroth^ on the banxs of the Red sea. Josephus, then, and other authors who copy after him, seem to be too hasty in making the Israelites perform this ioumev of ninety or one hundred Roman miles in three days: by reckoning each of the stations that are recorded for one day. Whereas^ the Soriptures are altogether silent with regard to the time or dntance, recording the stations only. The fatigu^ tikewiac, would have been abundantly too great, for a nation on foot, enciimbered with their dough, their huading-trourAo, their little dUtdrtn and eatUe, to walk at the nUe ot Uurtif Roman miles a day. Another instance of the same kiwi occurs, Exod. xxxiii. 9. where Elim i* mentioned aa ftw next station after Marah, thou^ BHm and JHttroA arc ther distant from each odier tlian Gxiro is from the Red • sea. Several intermediate stations, theielbre, as well here as in other places, were omitted, the holy penman cooteniing himself with layine down sucli only as were the most remarkable, or attenoed with some notable transaction. Succoth, tnen, the first station from Rameses, ngni- Fying only a place tent*, may have no fixed ntnaiwo, being proMbly nothing more than some considerable Doutear of the ImmaelUee or Arabs, su^ aa we stiO meet with at^^een or twenty miles distance from Cairo, in the rood to the Red tea. The rendetnmx of the atan which otmducted us to Suez was at one of these Lhmwart, at the same time we aaw another at about wix mile* distance under Uie monntaina of JMw-eufee, Or in the very same direetim which the Israelites may be supposed to have taken in their marches from Gothtn toward the Red tea.
"That the Itraelitea, before they turned toward jROiahiroth, had travelled in an open ccuniiy, (the same wmy, perhaps, which their forefathers had taken in coming into Egypt) appears to be farther illustrated from the foUowing circumstance: that upon their being ordered lo remdvs from the edge of the wilderness, and to encamp before ^'ihahiroth, it immediately follows that Phwaoh should then say, they are entangled tn Ihx land, the wildernets (betwixt the mountains we may siq)p0Be of Qewauiiee and Attaekdh) has shut them in, Exod. xiv. 3. or, aa it it in the oriniuu, eeggar) tidm iBU dauatl, as diat word ia ' explained by Pagninue; for in these circumstances the Egyptian* might well imagine ihit tlie Itraelitet could have no possible wav to escape, i nasmuch as the mountainB of Qewoubee would stop their flight or progress to the southward, as the mountains of Attaekah would do tha same, toward the land of the Philittintt; the Jllsd cm likewise lay befbre them to the eaa^ whilst Pharaoh eloaed
%the valley behind them with his Aariott and Aortemeit. is valley ends at the sea, in a small bay made by the eastern extremities of die mountains which I have berai describing, and is called Tiah-Beni Israel, i e. die rood of the Israelites, by a tradition diat is still kept up the Arabs, of their having paaand du-oiigh it| so it ia also colled Baideahj from m new and unlwaid-of mdnade that was wrou^t near it, W dividing the Rtd sea, and destroying therein Pharaoh,hit lariats, and l^koroemen. "Hie third notable encampment then of the Israelites wu mt this bay. It was to be before Pihahiroth, fisftnrl Hi«;dol and the sea, over against Baal-tze)dioii, Exod. xiv. 2. and in Numb, xxxiii. 77 it waa to be before Higdol, where the word^ifi^ itpAtu, (fre/bre, aswe render it,) being applied to PftoAiroA and MCrdol, may signify no more Inan thsa tbeypitohed within sight of or atasmall distanea from, the «w and die odioref iboeeplaoea. Whether Bool-firephoia
thu nwy hxn reUtion to the nortbAm situuion of dw phM imIL or to wme watch-lower or idol UamU that vnM ereetM upon it; tn aatsr probably lakeit Ibr aw oaatom eitremity of ibe mouataiiu of StUx or jUtadah, the moat oonipLCuoiu of these deaerta, inasmuch as it overlook! a gnat part of the lower "rhdtait, as well aa the vildemesa that reaches toward, or which rather makes part of the land qf tht PhUiHinea. Migdol then might he to the south, aa Baal-taephon did to the north of Pihahirotin for the iwches <A the bnuUttM from the edge of the wilderness being to the seaward, that is, towara the S. E., their encamproenta bthteen Migdol and the »ea, or befora Migdol, as It is otherwise noted, could not well have another liEuation.
"Pihahiroth, or Hhiroth, rather, without ref;arding the ^nftxed part of it, may have a more geaieral signification, SDof denote the valley, or that whole space of grmind which eitended itself from the edge of the wilderness of BOtam to the Red tea i for that particular part only, where the Israelites were ortlered to encamp, ^>pears to have been called Pihahirotb, L e. moutK qf Hhinth; tor when Pharaoh overtook them, it was in respect to hii coming down iBMn them, Ezod. xrv. 9. nvnn ^ i. e. btsidea or at Ou wWSh, or the most advanced pan BMrolk to the eaatynA lakewiie in Numb, zzziti. 7. where the Israelites are related to have encamped befbre Migdol, it follows, ver. 8L that fAsy dqtart&d, rynrvt iisn^rom otfore Hhiroth, and not from befort Pihatdroth^ as it is renucred in our translatioa.
"llMn are likewise odier eircomstancea to prove that die hra^Uea todk their departore from this vallev in thair pua^ throu^ the Rtd wta^ tta U could not have been to the northward of the mounlaiaa of Attackah, or In die hitler road, which I have taken notice of; because as thia lies for the most port upon a level, the Itradita could not have been hen, as we find they were, shut in and entangled. Neither eould it have been on the other aide, ^x. to the soaih of the mountains of Oewoubee, for then, (besides the insuperable difficulties which the urad- 4Ut wbold have met with in climbing over them, the same likewise that the Egyptiatu would nave had in pursuing them) die opposite sbOTe could not have been the desert of Stur, where the UraeHtea landed, Exod. zv. 22- but it vould have been the desert of Mirah, that lay a great way beyood it. What ia now called Corondel mig^t probauy be the soudwrn portion of the deaert of Mdrah, the ahoreof the A«f sAi, from Sutx, hitherto having continued fo be low and sandy i but from Corondel to the port of 7Vr, the diore is for the most part rocky and mountainous in the same amnser with the Egvpiian coast that liea oppoaite to it; neither the one nor the other of them aflbrding any convenient places either tor the departun of a inultitade from the one shor^m- the reception of it upon the other. And besides, from Conmdd to TV, the enannel of the Red sea, whioi from Suex to Sdur ia not above nine or ten miles broad, begins here to be so many leagues, loo great a space certainly tor the ItracUtu, in ine manner Aey were eneombered, to pass over in one night. At TV Ibe Arabian diore begins to wind itself round about Ptoitwvfa promontorjr of^ Paran, toward the gulf of EloA, while the Egyptian shore retires so far to the southwest dtat it can scarce be perceived. As the TsraetUet then, for theae reasons, could not, according to the omnion of some auduvs. have landedeiiher at Corondd or Tor, to neither eoaVl tn^ bave landed at Ain et Mnuah, acctodiag to the eonjeeturea of otliers. For if the passage die ArseffMs had been so near the extremity of the Red sea, it may be presumed that the very encampments of six hundred thousand men, besides children, and a mixed multitnde, wliich would amount to as many more, would have •pRsd themselves, even lo the farther, or the Arabian side « this narrow iflAmtu^ whereby the interposition of Prov- Uettee would not bave been at all necessary; beeaiu^ ia Ibia ease, and in this ritvmtion, there oould not have been room enough for the aaUr*, after they were divided, to have sfoocf an a heap, or to have btm a vaJl wrdo lhaiif particularly on the left hajtd. Th'iM, moreover, would not lurve been a division, but a recess only of the water to the ■outhward. PharaoA, likewise, hy overtaking them aa diey were encamped in this open situation by the sea, would have easily surrounded them on all sides. Whereas tfia contrary seems to be implied by the pUtar o/" A« doud, Baod. ziT. 19, 20. which (divided, or) tame ottwMn. the mmtp ^ th» EgypHant and Ou camp qf ItraeL and tbenby left the bnuliia (provided this cloud should have been removed) in a situation only of being molested in the KMr. For the narrow valley wnieh I bave described, and wfaioh w« may presume was ahready occupied rad filled op MUml by the bort of Egmt. and b^ptn by the en- CMnpoMte «r lbs larasKte^ wmd not penoit or laava
.room for the EgmHana to approach them, either oa lha ri^thaodorontoel^ Besrfee, if diii pwwaaa was at Am Mmua, how can we aecount fiir that lemanable cir* cumatance, Exod. xv. 22. where it is said, diat itkm M>»e» brought jbrael/rom the Red eea, Asjr vaU out into (or lanoed in) the vnldemeee qf Shur. Per Shur, a particular district of the wilderness of Eiham, lies ^- rectly fronting the valley, from which I suppose thmr da- Murted, but a great many miles to the souraward of ASa Mouea. If tttev landed likewise at Am Mbuea, wbnre there ore several fnuntoiiu^ there would have been no occasion for the sacred historian to have observed, at the same lime, that the In-aelUta, afltt fftsy wni out from the sea tnto the itildemeae iff iSS^ur, xtad Are« days in the wiitUrneee, always directing their marches toward Mmnt Siiusi, andjbund no voter; for which reason Marah ia recorded, ver. 23. to be the fint place where they finind water, aa their wandering so far before they found it, seems to make Marah also theu- first station, after their passage through the Red sea. Moreover, tlw channel over uainst An Mouse is not above three miles over, whereas t&u betwixt Shur or Sedur and Jibbel Oewoubee and Attackah, is nina or ten. and theretsre cmcious enough as the other wouM have Men too small, for ooMrin^ or drowning. Aerain, Ez^ XV. 28. I&e chmiott and k^reemen, and «U As Aok <ff Pharaoh. And therefore by impartially weighing bQ these arnunants together, this unportant point in me taertd geography, nu^ with more authohqr be fixed at Sedur, over against the valley of Baideah, than at TV, Corondel, Am Minua, or any other place.
" Over against JiUd, AUaekah, and die valley ef Bal' deah, is die deaert, aa it ia eallei^ of 8dnr, the saM widi Shur, Exod. XV. Xt. when die AraeUteo laniied, after they bad passed through the iaterjaoeat gulf of the Red ««a. The situatitm ot diis gulf^ whiob is ths Jam stipib tpocrthe tsesdy sea, or the tongue the Egyi^iam eeOf in the Scriptun language t the gulf of HeroopoMM in d» Ortek and Latin geo^qiby t and the tcestent arm, a* the AroMan geogiafdien call it, <rf the sea of Kolxumf stretches itself nearly north and south, and therafon lies v<ny pnmerly situated, to be traversed by that strong.nut. wtna which was sent to divids it, Exod. xiv. Zl. Tba division that was thus made in the ehannair the ntoiin^ As wattrt 1^ it to ttand on a A«ap^ (Pa. Izxviii. 13.) their being a watt to Ae ItpaeUtu, on mo rigM Aand onii as thettfts Exod. jdv. 22. besidea lbs twenty miles disiane^ at least, of this passage, from the extremis of the gul^ an circumstances which sufficiently vouch for the miraei^ loumen of it, and no less contradtct all such idle suppositions as pntend to account for it, from the natun and quality of Udes^ or from any sudi extraordinary recess of dM asa, as it asema to ham been too raahly conpareil to^ by JosefduM.
" ui travelling from Sdur towards mount Sinai, we come into the desert, as it is still called, of Marah, wnera the leraelitee met with those bitter wUere, or voters ^ Marah, (Exod. xv. 23.) And aa diis circumstance did not happen till after they lud wandered three daye in the wUderneee. we may probablv fix these waters at Corondel, where toen is still a small rill, which, unless it be dilutea Inr the dews and rain, still continues to be bracki^. Near thisplace, the sea forms itself into a largo bay, called Ber^ el Oorondet, 1. e. the lake of Corondel; whi<Mi is remarkable from a atrong current, that sets into it trom the northward, uartieularly at due reoesa of the tide. The Arab*, agreeably to the interpretation of Kolnim (die name Ibr this sea) preserve a tradition, tbu a numerous host was formerly drowned at this place, occasioned, no douM, by what is related Exod. xiv. 30. that the Israelites saw dw Egyptiane dead upon the seashore, i. e. all along, as wa may presume, from Sdur to Corondel; and at Corondd especially, from the assistance and termination of the curreiit^ It has been already ntentioned.
"Iben is nothing farther remaitebla, till wo aaa dm JtraelUeo encamped at Elim, Exod. xv. 27. Namb. xxxKi. 9. upon the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, two leagiies firom TV, and near Ihir^ from CorondeL I saw no more than nine of the twelve wdle that an mentiODed by Moaea; the other three being filled up by those dMfti of sand, which an common in Arabia. Tet this loss ia amply made up by die great increase of die fMlm-lree^ tba eeoeiiy having propagated themselves into mora than two thousand. Under the shade of diese trees is the Uammam Meuea, or hatkofMaoee, particularly so called, which die inhabitants of TV have in great esteem and veneratico > air<riaintiiig us that it was toe, \rtien die household of Moaes was encamped.
" We have a distiaet view of aioim< £Kiiai from / tba wikfagroes^ M k is stiU called, of filin, re lying betwaett IboM. WenvanadtbeM^ainaiftvnabeurai bangatt
ibe war 4^ertMl wiih-4» ngfat rf a wfcir cf KMrtb and vtpen, that are here ui great numben. rn wen afterward near twelve houn in pauing the many windinga wd difficult wan, wfaidi lie between these denru and AoM of SinaL The latter consiata of a bcautiftil plain, mm tlwit a league m breadlfa, and nearly three in length; lying open toward the nortbeaM, where we enter it, but ie clond up to die aouthwardt by aome of the lower •mineneea of mount Sinai. In dm tUrection, likewiee, the hi^ier parta of thie mountain make euch encroachmcBla upon the idain, that ihey divide it into two, each of ihcm eapacioua enough to receive the whole eocampmeat of the ianuMee. n»t wlwdi lies to the eeotwaid ttmj be ttie daavt of Sinai, pn^rly so called, where Mmm taw Iht angd ef Ou Lord iH tht burning buA, vhm he wa> gmtding Ou JlaekrtifJethro,Ext)i.uL2. TTueonvtai^ St. Catharim isbttilt over the place of thia divine appearance. It ia nuu tkne hnndrtd feet aquare^ and more than fortjf in liai^t, being built partly widi atone, pertly with mud and moTlarmizM to^tber. Tte more immediate place of ibe diekdoah ia bonoored widi a little diqtel, iriuch ddi oU fraternity of 8L Banl has in waok eateem and veneration, thai, in inilatiaD of JUwet, fAey jnU t^f Aeir aAoea Jrtm HuUrfidt whenever they enter it. TOiifc widi Mveral olh« cliuda dedicated lo particular Mtnla, are inehided within toe ckunA, they call it, of the (nma- JtgmntUmt wfaidi ia a la^ bemt^ atiucture covered with lead, Mul auppocted by two rove of maible columns. fRie floor is vary elegantly laid out in a varie^r of devices in Monic work. Ot the nme tsaaelated workmanrfiip, likewiae^ are both die flow and the walla of Ibe prabybrtam, upon the tatter whereof ia represented the ^Iflgita of the emfwwr.AMiiNiaii, toftetber widi dw hiatory of the ffwwtoiiraWwi. Upon the ptftitfoo which aepaiatea the pmlSt^riim CrMk tte b«dy <d the dtonA, there ia placed • small marbU sAriM^ wherein are preaerved die ritull ■ad one of Um handa of St Cedtarine: the rest of the noed body having been bestowed at different times, upon ■oeb ChriM^an prince* sa have oootr^led to the support of dna convent. •* Ibitnt fifoaf, ii4udi hangs over tfiis convent, is called
and sometimea only, by vray of auiiienee, Bl Tbr, L e. tk4 vunaUain. Tbo summit of mount Sinai ia sot very naeiouai where the.MAanmedone, the Latttu, aad the Crreefo, iiave each of them a small chapel.
" Afker we had desoendei widi no small difficult, down Ae other, or weatwn aide cc thia moun^ we ciHne mto the plain or wiUemsss dJIqiMdfm, End. xvii. L where we aea diat extraordinary aoliqiiity, the roek ^ Mertbah., Bnd. xvii. 6. iriudi has conunoaa down to due day without die least injury from time M-aoeidenls. 'niiaiin^tly oalled, frcnn iu hardness, Deut viiL 16. a rotk itfjlitu, ero'jrm m. Tboo^ from the poiple or reddish coloar of it, it may be rwhsr rendered die rock of e*7n or reVm mmathytt, or the amethyMm^ or granite rock. It ia about aiz yards square, lying tottermg, as it were, and kooae, ne«r the middle of the valby, and seems to have been formerly n part or eliff of mount Sinot, wfaieh hangs in a varie^ DC preciaioes all over this plain. 71UiMt«r«whidtiffiu^ out, and Oim efreom which JUmed wMa^ PaaL IzxviiL 90. hava hollowed aomsa one comor of thia loe^ a duoinel ' ibnt two inttes deep, and tweottiride,dl overinentaMt- «d lOw the inaMs <A a tea-kettle that has ben long used. Beadas aeveral awssy production^ that are atill preserved
5UiadeW| we see all over this channel a greM number bdes, some of them (bar or -five indies deejs and one «r two in diameter: the lively and demooatrativa tokens of their haviiw been fcHVerly ao many fimnlaini. Neithn oouldartor eMDcebeeoDcaoedinthBeontrivaniDat hweuneh M eveay ebmwstanee pants oat to ns a mitsde: and in the same menner, with the rent in the rock of mount Calaary in JerutaUm, never &ila to produoe the gi«atest MrkmaDeaa and devotion in all who aee ic
"From mount Sinaf, the Im-aOUa directed dieir narches nordiward, toward the Uad (rf Canaan, lie next remarkable encampments, dierrfMe^ were in the desert of ParoR, which seems to have eommenced immediate^ «poa their departing from Ha*oreA, Oiree station^ or days' jomBnif, L e. nirftp miles, as we will only compute them, from SEnoi, Numb. z. 33. and xii. 16. And b* tradition has continued down ts qs die names of iSAur, Maro/t, and Sini so it has also that of Paran t the ruina of the lale convmt of Pamn. built upon the ruins of an ancient ethr of UuUnavte, (which mi(^ give denomination to the whtda of diat deaert,) bung about the half-way between Sinai and Conmdal, whidi lie at tonj leagues distance. Thieaiiuaiianof i>(mn,M/<sr to die aouM of XiitiMA, viU iUnnnte Oen. xii. & 6. vbara CMMwmer, and AekmgMthtwtrt with kirn, m »aid to h«Mtmott »U
BarUea in tiieir nunml Seir unto El Paran, ^ e. unto the city, as I take it, of diat name,) whidt is in, or fry As wtbUmtn. From die more advanced part of the wuderneM of i>aran, (the same that lay in die road between Midian and Egypt, 1 Kings xi. 18.) Motet tent a man out qf every trwe to spy out tiu lana^ Canatm, Numb. zxiiL 8. who nittmta to kim^terfirtv dayo, vmio On aame iHUtmeUf-lo KadtA Bumsa, ninnh xxziL & DeuL L 10. and IX. 23. JoA. xiv. 7. TUs plaoe or city, which in Gen. xiv. 7. is tailed EnmiApat (t. e. the fountain of AMtpat) ia (in Numb. xx. 1. xxvii. 14. xzxiiL 36.) called 7>ui KadeA, or simply Kadeth (as in Geo. xvi. 14. xz. 1.) and being equally asenbed lo die deaert <tf TMi r« and to dw desert of Pwwi, we may presume that As deaert of Tkin and i^oran wen one ana the am^ p or 0<» may be so called from die plant! of diven palm grounds upon it
"A late ingenioua author baa ritualed KadtA BorMo, a place of no small consequence in Scripture history, wUdi wears now enquiring after, at eight houn or twenty milee distance only, from mount iSbw^ whfeh I pnsone eauiM be admittM lor various reasons. Beause several texts of Scripture insinuate, that Kodak lay at a much grvater diatanee. Thue in DeuL i. 9. it ia said, thejr departedfrom Uoreb ftrougft that great and itrribU vnldenuu (which ■uppoeee by rar a much greater extent both of time aad space,) ana come to Kadeth Bamea s and in chap. ix. 23L tehen A« i^ard cani yon from. KadeJi Bamea to pomm tAe land: irtiieh Numb. xx. 16. ia deteribtd to kt aatg inAtvttormootpartaitf ikobordtraf Edomt Ifaebacder of the land of Edom and diat of me land ^ pnmdt* being contiguouB, and in &ct the very same. Ana&nher. Deut I. C it is expressly aaid, thire are titseen dnr jewrnfvfrem Honb by me way ^ mount Seir to JudeA Bamea: which, from Ibe context, cannot be oiliei^ wise understood, dian of marching along die dirtfi road. For Moses hereby intimates, how soon the iin-aeKto bkjtt have entered upon die borders of the land nf pT^ miie, if diey had not been a stubbcHn and rebellious people. Vtiiereas the number of their stations between SEnot and JTadeah, as diey are particularly enumerated, Numb. zzxiiL (each of^wliich mtist have ben at Jaaat one journey,) appear to be near twice aa many, or tvmlp-ont, m which they are said with great truth end propriety (Ps. cvii. 4.) to Aore wandered in the wUdemeas out tff Ikt feayi and in Deut. ii 1. to have eOmpoMted mamnt Setr, mther than to have travelled directly through iL If then we allow ten mika for each ot these eleven daW jown^ (and finrer Ipresume cannot well be insietea upon) dw disianee of JEodsah fron mount Stnai vQl be about ow Aundred and ton mtte*. Hat ten miks « ^y (I ueam in a direct line, aa laid down in the mop, witKout eonaidering tlw deviationa, which are every where, more or lei^ were eooivalent to oneday'a journey, may be farther pnmd from ine history of the apU^ who aearched the land CPfumb. ziii. 21.) ^rom Kadtm to RAob aa man eowu to JBamatk, and returned in fbit^ days. RAob then, d» Cutheat point of thia expedition to the ontbwaid, may well be ocmceived to have been tamiy dajy journey frcsi iCsdeaft; and therefbre to know the true posiUon of Asfcoi^ will be a material point in this disquiaiticm. Now it appeara from Josh. ziz. 29, 30. and Judg. L 31. that Rdtok was one of the maritime cities of the tribe of Adier) and hy (hi travelling, as we may suppose, bv the omnmon or nearest way aloi^ the seacoast) non k3> Numb. ziiL 2L (not, as we render it, as men come to Hdmath, but) at men go toward HamaA, in going to Hdmatlif ot in Ike wnr, or road to Hamatk. For to have searched the land aa rar as Bdmath, and to have returned to Kadeak in fiwtj iaya, would have been altogether Impossible. Moreover, aa the tribe of AJter did not reach b^rood Sidon (for dial was ita nordiem boundary, Joah. xix. 2Et.) Bdkob must have been situated to the southward of Sidon, npoo, or (betiw a derivative pei4ia|Hi from 3rn latum eaat) mIow in the plain, under a long chain of mountains, that runs eaat and wea^ throu^ the midst of that tribe. Aad as thea mouniaini, calld by some the mountains of Saran, are all along, except in die narrow read, which I have aaentioned. near (he sea, very rugged, and difficult to pas over, die apea, who could not well take another way, nu^tt imagine Ihey would run too great a risk of being discovered, m attempting to pass through it. For in thus ei countries a watdifiil eye was always, aa it is stU^ upon strangers, as we nwy collect mim the history of two angels at Sodom, Glen. zix. B. and of Ibe spiea nl Jeridto, Josh. ii. 2. and from other instances. If then, wu. fix Relu)b upon the skirts of the plains of Acre, a little to the south 01 this narrow road, (tne iSbota TWientas ao it was alterwatdi named) somewhere near Jydtos^ A*
be afinil teo
distance between KadeA and Rthob will
ty milM only from SiniU or Horat, the diatance will be Otrtt kundrad and thirty miles. And instead of ten miles • dmy, Moording to the former compuiation, the vpiet must hftve travelled Bear aeveideen, which far Jfmiy days suc- BMsively, Mems lo have been too diSicult aji expedition in tfais hot, md ccmsequently ftiii^ing climate; especially as Ibey were on fiiot, or footpaiu, as q^^j-id (their appellatitm in the cviginal) mar protnibly import. These geo> grat^iml oircamstances iKerefbre, thus correapoDding with what i* aetoaJly known of those countries at this time, abould induce us to situate Kadeah, as I have already done, one hundred and ten milea to the oordiwud m mtmni 8ini^ and ^ty-two miles to the westward cS Mtttk, near Callah Nai^ar^\. e. the castle of the ri-rer or ftxintain, (prctably the Ain Mishpat) a noted station of the MahamtA«dmtm in their pilgrimage to Mecca,
** From XtxtMA, the afadittM were ordered to turn into the wUdcnuta by the way ^ tk* Rtd sea, (Numb. niv. 26. DeuL i. 40.) i. e. they were at this tinu^ in puniah- BBsnt of Iheir miutmiriDgs, infideli^, and diBofaedienc^ lo ■dnnce DO fitfther northward, toward the land of Canaan. Now, these marches are called the eompasaing iif Mount Sfir,I>eut. ii. 1. aMthtpaning by fromthtduidren ^ Asm, vkid*. dwdt in Skr, through lh£ way qf thej^n of JEloA and M!*ion-gaitr, ver. 9. "Rie wandering, tovefer^ of the children of brad, during the space of diir^-ci^t jt»n, DeuL ii 14. was confined in alFproba-
' bility,lothuiw<dcrf land only which lies bomdedliyi^« sun of JElsA and Beroopottk. If dien we could adjust tbe true position of Bloth, we should gfun one considerable point toward the better laying down and circumscribing tins mountainous traet, where uie laraelitea wondeied for ao many years. Now there is an tmiversal- eoomt veavk mbom^km, that nV^) Eiothy AUah, or AtUma, as it is difiwently named was situated wm (be nwthem eztfemi^ of the gulf of that name. PUAtmy, indeed, places it fortt/'Jlve minxiU* to the south of aeromoti*, and nearly thrtcdegreet to the east; whereaa Abuifeda, whose later Mtbori^, and perfas^ greater experience, should be more fegarded, makes the extremities of (he two gulfs to lie nearly in toe same parallel, though without recording the distance between them. I tWTe Men often informed by the Mohammedan pilgrims, vrho, in their way to Mecca, nan by them both, that th^ direct their marches from Cairo eastward, till they amye at Call^th AcctdMi, or the castle (situated below (he mountains) of Accaba, upon the £fantfie point of (he Red tea. Here they begin to travel between the south and southeast, with their mees directly toward Mecca, whidi lay hitherto upon their rij^t banf g having mads in all from Adjerotde, ten miles to (he north northwest of Suez, to this castle, a journey of nventy hours. But as this whole tract is very mountainous, the road must consequently be attended with great variety of windings and turnings, which would hinder them from making any greater progress, than at the rate, we will ouppose, of about half a league an hour. Eloth, then,
SwmA im dks j>lBce of n TVnUifc ganisoo at present, as, was a preiviium of the Roman* In former times,) will lie, accoi^ing to this caleulation, about mu hundred and./brfjr miles from Adjeroute, in an east by south direction: aposition which will likewise receive farther confirmation, from iha distance that is assigned to it fi^ Qaxa, in the old gen^raphy. For, as this distance was one mtndred maMfy Rmnan miles, according to Ptiny, or otu Aimdrad madjffty-mm, according lo other authors. Elclh eatdd not have had a more soainem situation than latitude tioenty-niti* degree*, Jbrty minutee; neither could it have had amore northern latitude, insomuch as this would have •o bi invalidated a just obaervatioa of Stroma, who makes BeromolU and Pduaium to be much nearer each Other -chan EUOk and Gaxa. And, besides, as Oaza is well known to lie in latitude thirty-mu degreeafor^ mimdeM, (as we have placed Bloth in loWuds Apsn^ nine degreet foHy minuiea^ the differeooe <rf lotiDtde between them will be two degreee, or one hundred and twen^ get^rai^ical miles; which converted into Roman miles, {tecmty-Jlte and a Aoj/' of which make one degree) we have (he very distanoe (espscially as thl^ lie nearly under (be same meridiaiL) thu is ascribed to them above fay Sirabo and Plitty, YH, notwithstanding this point nay be gained, it would be too daring an attempt even to proend to traea out above two or mree of the encampmenu mentioned, Numb, zxxiii. dioughtbe greatest put of (hem was, In all probability, confined to Uiis tract of Arabia Petnea, which I have bounded to the east, by the meridian of Bloth, and to the west by that of Heroopotie; Kodesh lying near, ornpon (be skirts of it to Qie northward. "However, one of uieir more southern stations, after
nhad left Mnmt Sinai, and Faran, seems to have
been at Bxion-gaber, n^ich being the place from whenM Solomon's navy teerU for gold to Ophir, 1 Xongs ix. 26, 2 Chron. viii. 17. we may be induced to take it for the present, Meenah d Doakab, i. e. the port gold. Aoewding to the account I had of this place from the mmix <(f St. CoMoHr^ it lies in the gulf of flafA, between two and three days' journey from ihem, — enjoying a spacious harbour; from whence they are sometimes supplied, as I have already mentioned, with plenty of lobaters and shellfish. Meenah el Dsahab, therefore, from ihis circumstance may be nearly at the same distance from Sinai with 7W; from whence they are Ultewise furnished with the nmep]roTiaion& which, unless they are brought with the utmost ezpediuoo, frequently corrupt and putrefy. I have already given the distance between the northwest part of the deaert of Sin and Mount Sijiai, lo be twentyone hours; and if we farther add three hours, (the distance between the desert of Sin and the port of Tor, from whence these fish are oblaioed,) we shall have, in all, twenlyjbur hours; L e. in round numbers, about wixty miles. Bxion-gaber, consequently, may lie a little more or less at that distance from Sinai; because the days' journeys which the monks speak o^ are not, peihi^is, to be considered as erdinarr ana conunon ones; but sticb as are made in hast^ that ma fish may arrive in good condition.
" In the description qf the Eatt, p. 167, Ezion-gaAtr is placed to the southeast of Bloth, and at two or three miles only from it i which, I presume, cannot be admitted. For, as BloA itself is sitttaled upon the very point of the XaXf, Exion-gaber, by laving to the southeast of it, would >elong to theiand of Midian / whereas Bzion-gaber was undoubtedly a sea-port in the land qf Bdom; as we learn from the ouOiorifiu above related, viz. where King Salomon is said to have made a naty iff s&tps in Bzion-gaibtr, uhieh ie rfy<7 riM beaide Elotn, on the shore qf the Red eea, in the landqf Edam, Here it may be observed, that the word rm we render betide (viz.) Bloth, abould be rendered, together with Bloth; not denoting aigr vieini^ be> tween Ihun, but that they were both of them port» OtM Red tea, in the land qf Bdom.
"From Ezion-gtAer the Uraditet turned back agaio to Kadeth, with an intent to direct their marches that way into the land o/" Canaan, But upon EdmtCt refiising to give Itrael paatage throuj^ hi* border, (Numb. xx. 18.) Oiey turned away Jrom him to the right hand, as I suppose, toward Mount Bar, (Niunb. xx. 21.) wbi^ migiit tie to the eastward of Kaduii, in the road from thence to the Red eea; and as the tout of the diOdren ftf Itrael is said to have been here nnieA tUaeouraged becaute qf (ho way, it is very probable that Mount Uor was the sama chain <i mountains that ore now called Accaba by the Arabs, and were the easternmost range, as we maytake Ihem to be, of Ptolemy's >Hh»a im above described, avre, from the badness of tne road, and the many ru^ed passes that are to be surmounted, the Mnhammodan jAlgriiiu lose a number of camels, and are no less fatigued than die Israelites were Carmeriy in getting over them. I have already biated, that this diaia of mountains, the ^x>i« of Ptolemy, reached fr^im Paran to Judea. Petra, therefore, accottling to its later name, the mshvpoKs of this part of Arabia, may well be supposed to lie among them, and to have been hnt the ItraeHUo on their left hain, in joumertng toward Moab. Yet it will be difficult to deter^ mine the situation of this eityt for want of a Miffident number of geog;^^eaI data to proceed upon. In the old geogiai*y, Tetra is placed one hundred and thirty- Ave muet to the eastward of Oaxa, and fbur days' journey from jeriiAo, to the southward. But neither « these cBstanees can be any ways accounted fbr; the first being loo great, the other too deficienL For, as we mur well suppose retra to lie near, or l^>on the border of Jaaab, eeven damf Journey would be die least: (he same that the three kings took hither, 2 KiMB iii. 9. (by fcldiing a compass^ as we Imagine,) from Jonuolom, whidi was nearer to dutt border then Jeridta. However, ata medium, Petra lay in all probability, about the half way between dw south eztremi^ of the AtphaUic lake, and the gulf of BU^ and may be dterefbre fixed near the confines of the country of the Midianitee and Moabile* at etveidy miles distahce frim £ad««^ towards (he northeast I and s^gA^ ilvs from Oaa«, to (ha souUl Aee«dii« to JbsiphiW) tl was formerly called Af«^ whioh Bodiart supposes to Iw a corruption of Rekem, the tr\ie and ancient name. T%e Amale/eHet, so frequently mentioned in Scripture, were once se^ed in the neighbourhood of this place, who wen succeeded hf the Nabathaane, apeople no less fitmiMa in profane history. From Mount On-, die directton of their manhea diroui^ 2almona, Punon, Ac seems to have been between im nordi and nordieasL For it does not
ftztpear, dwttbey wnwitrwt anymore in fti latUtnum Mrt diraef way dint.WM to omKluet (bsm through
It nay be oneeuBiT to infBmi the reader, Ant the map vfaieb aceompaiiiea tote book, bM been eonttnioted ftou die very belt authoriiiee, and much pain have bean lakoi to make it correct Oreat difficulty, oowever, has occurred in laying down the different plaoes; no two traveUen agreeing in their accounts of the poeitiooi, bearings and dulanDei of tte towiu, villaKe^ mounlaini^ Ac which ' they meotiMi. The eonfuntniliwe ia indeeenbable, aiid I am far from lUMHMing that every diAeul^ it removed, by the pains that have been taken to eorreet and reconcile others. Several embarraismenli still remain, but they are not such as affect the genml accural^ of the map. Hie poeition of Egypt, the Nil& Mediterranean see, Red aea, with ito Hera^mie ii»l EfanitiB gol^ the Dee^
Uou^I have inserted the preceding remarha from Dr. Bba.v, yet, aa many respectable writers differ from him in some podtionaand distanoea, loouMiuiteonatnictiheniu •0 aa to tally with his account, much less with hi* wmf, whiidi is obviou^ incorrect: tWelbre the reader moat not be surpriaed ifne find WMne atation^ not exactly in ttm places in which Dr. Shaw kya diem down. The diffieul^ of placing diese correctly in a tractleaa wildenwa% which baa never been aoeuretely meaaurod, will at oneo plead both his excuse and mine.
Hie track vf the jourofv iSt Irrathtu, I have laid down exactly from Dr. Snaw'a mt^i but this diflen widely from Calmet and odtera. The forty'two station^ mentioned Numb, zxziii I could not pretend to lay down with any degree d correctneaa, aa most that has been mtoA on the subje^ appem to ma to be founded nubar on cooleoture than ntcta.
Atout thii Uma Kobatb, tbo woa oT Levi, grKndfkther of MotM, dM im Um 133d tsu oT Ua ua.
U iMm Mar. mlkUk tk» tigkl—iUk Ctewy*. tU OUMm— iwfW war wkk tlu Pkmtiimn. Aiaui tMt tiwu, tk* ArmUtm nOdkW Uj CUMwwt. Mi trnkprntiuUm^ Aeir twMrtrf Mmm beUu ttjraan of age, kiH« aa ^rpUan, wbon be (M*d nyUu a Hobmr; lo oonia^OBOCe of wUeb. bdnc oMigad to ^ br bla IIA. be aacapaa W Uw Uad of Hidian, wbera. boeoadas aiCqMiatod witb tbe ftmlljr of Jatbro, be nuniea Zipporab, Exod. IL 11—SL The Uitb ta Oalab, the aoo of JephMnab. AaMM* JHmms, U ' ~ ~
■MM, Umg ^ Kgtft. diM ai»iUW»tim4imllumkfMr-^Uar»ign,4U*i it MeeaaM If M« mm JmmumkU, who rmf%» Maataaa voart mni aiz aiMUi«. TIm daatb of Amram, Uh fhtber of Moaea, ia aappoaad to hare takea plaeo aboat tUa tinta. While Moaea kaepa the floek of Jetbro at Mount Horeb, tbe «Bgel of Ood ippeara to Una in a barnlaf boab, proaiaea to deliver tbe Hebrews from Uuir oppireaaloo In BgTpt, aiid aanda Um to Pfiariob, to coonnand bin-to let larael to, Biod. iii. Aaron and Mooea aaaantble tM eWeta Iiraal, Infttra Uiam of (be dlTine' parpoos. aad tbes go to Phanoh, and deilre Um, io the UM of Uw Ood of tbe Htbmn, t« let tfeapaouo go tbfM4qn*Jomitr into tbe ariMeraeaa, to hold a ftaat «oto thi Lori. of tbe laraelitca. Biod. v. Aaron Ibrowa dowm Ua rod, whlcta beeomea a aarpeat. Emd. viL
Pharaoh raflHinf to let the laneHtea ro, Ood aanda hie Jlrat plUwe apoa tbe ^yptlana, and tbe Mtore an (arnad MU* IM, Exod. vll. 19-43.- PbanobreoulotaiclBiponltenl.aod aehda Imnenae nuhbon ofAViWUdi latM Uw whole lind of
Bmt. niie waa tbe aaeand fUrtt*, ebap. viii. 1—7. TUa idafiM not prodaelng the iMred effbct. Ood aahda Ihe tUitf yl^M, the 4ut of tbe irmwd beeowlni
JtM on man and beaat, cbap. riil. 16— 90. Pharaoh^ heart atill ramainlnf oMonte. Ood aaadta Uw fimtkrUgim q|oa the hhtioa. by CMSliif gtoat owwaw trfatea to eoTor the whole land, chap. i4ll. M>—aL The BfTptiu khu itm letMnc to dIamiM the Bebrews, CM eaadi He Jl^ tIwim, «M to a tmiveml
■nnala, or ■MMalitv amoog the eatUo, Biod. Ii. 1—7. Tbia produdng no food eflbet, tbe lixtk vUgnt of boUa a»d Uafaa ia aent, ebap. Ir. 8— 1*. Pharaoh atill hardMitnf Me haatt, CM eehb the MnmOk^agmM, vte a srtevow hall, rttob *eatroyad the whole prodoee of tbo field, ehap. iz. nia, ttarooitb Phara^>a •batiaaoy. proving ineSbetnal. the HglUk rUf» to liat, IMMW wmtxmm of
Pharaoh refluinff to aaboiit to tbe divine aulborttf, tbe ainttafwaa, a total dhikhea of tllM ajr OIMI- niaraoh cooUnoiu to feftoaa to let the people go, Ood laatitaiea the rite of tbe pawovar. and the
TUawaalatheftwtMnihUfhtoflheiwMith.dM. Tha toraeUtaa era ddna oat of Bcjpt. ebap.
IWarda the doee of tUa month, Pharaoh and the BgntUoB pama Uw fonaUM>-4ni opeiu a paaaage ftr theea throng h the Bad aaa, and their pan over aa on 4fy toad, WHA the %rpttona amarlag to do. ara all drowned, Exod. dv. Heb. xl. SB. _
The laraelliea come to JHtPoA, and monnor beeatwoof the bHtar watani Hofi* k Areeied to throw a Gortain tree into them, by wMah they ara readerod awpet, chap, rr.
Oa UwlfteeatbdM of Uda month Uwlaraditoa eomo to Uw deaert of lEa, wtaa, manaariag lir want of Weed. <|«aitoaraieat.«Bdmin»a from beam, Aap. ni.
ComtH to BertUm,lhermaiwarfbr want «f water. and Ood aoppOM tWa waat^mkaea lo«i4 toiuiag water ont of a raok fa Honk, chap. x*ll. I— T.
HwbraalltMOomatatbowlHenaaBof Oaal. Ood ealla Mooea np to tbe moant, when he reeatToa tbe loa caaweaadmeau aad other praeepts. Exnd. zix-— nl*. la laatrnetad how to auke the Uberaaeto. xxr— xnM. Aanm aad tua aona are dedicated to tbe prleafa ofltoe, cb. nvlll
Moeea detariag to eomo down mm the mount, tbe people make a molten ealf. aad wnraUp it. H«aee,eoaficdMrn,eeM Ui^ Idotatrf, ta dtotreaaeir and bnaka »w UMea-Uim tbooand arUwldoi«t«aa(artBla: and, at tbe latanamloa of Moaea Uw reM of Uw poopto ara aavad
HoBM i* iniii CBllod up Into ItM mount, wbeni God ranewa the ooTraanl. aad wriua ibe two
Mblea afMta. HoaM deatrea to toe ttte Dlviae glory; kit reqneM!■ p&rtlaUy graoied, cliap.
ixziii< 18— SO. xxxiv. 1—7, Hoaw, *tUT havinK boen to ibe nonnt (brtj daya »kI fttrcr oifhta, dwing Vlikk tUm ko ate nottaing, cornea dowD wltb the two tablea of atone: Ua race •fainea ao tbat be ia obUgad lo
Aboliab, aod their Moiatanta, are employed In conatnictlng Um tabernacle, ice Booording to' the partem delivered to Moaea on the mount, £iod. iiivi. xxxix. On the Stat ot thia month, being tbo Orat mouth of ibe aecoud year after Ibeir departure fton
ERypi, the tabernacle la reared up, and Aaroa and Ida aoaa aet apart tat the prteeta' oAm, lis fitlawingMt, Lariticua, Ja*broiwinga zlpporfthand bar twoaona to Moaaeia tha wiMeraeaa, and gina faiat whotaaoBe direetiona eooeamiu the beat ntode ofgoTCniliig the pooptoi wbkh Hoaca ibukftiUy acoepu,
A TABLE of the THREE GREAT EPOCHS, A. H., B. C, and tbe JUUAN PERIOD, mcbronlaad witb the reigna of tba aoTcroigna of Ibe fimr principal mooarcbieB; vix, Enrpt, Sicyaa. Ibe Argivi, and tbe AuwniaM, from the death of Jacob,
A. K. 3313. to the erection or tbe Tabernacle, A. H. aSH, by wtileh any ovent in tbe preceding Ouviulsficai TkiU may ba referred to ita eorreapondiDg year of tiM relgo of any of the above aoveKigna.
C O. To And out the year of tae Mnh of Moaaa, Inapeot tbe preceding Table, by wbkh it aKieara, be naa bom A. H. M33.
B. C. 1S71, aad from ibe DOnf 777. Then took io tbe foUowing Table, fbr A. M. 9433, where it appeara, that lUa treat took idaee ta Ibe year of tbe AUK^ AiM 2U»-thB 7th «f JlaauaM JViaaHM, kiag of 4]^^ or Meyaa— the 17lk of J>*ar>a», king of Uw ArgM aad Uw Utb h^n tbe niga of Onnft, Uog of Iba MmOna.
THE Graek nnion of tbe SuTVAonrr aod the Vul^iatA Latin, have nven the title of Ijviticto to die third book of the Pentateuch i and the name hae been retained in almost all the modem veraions. The book was thua called, bacaiue it tieata principally of the lawa and legulationi of tbe Z^evUet, and prieete in general In Hebrew it it termed tf^fm Vayikra, " And be called," which is tte Jlrat word in the book; uid whidu at in preceding casea, hffim» the running title to tbe whole. It contains an account of the ceremonies to be obeerved in the offering of burnt IKiifieea; meat, peace, and nn-offerii^; the consecration of priests^ together with the institution of the tmee grand Hdiaoal festivals, of the iewi^ PAaa-on&pKNncoar, and TABsiuTAaMi with a great varieqr of other ceekaiaaUcal matter*. It seems to eeoiBia little more than the bialaiy of vhat passed during die etghl day» of tbe consecradon of Aaron and his eons; dujugh Archbishop Usher supposes that it compriaeB the history of the transactions of a whole UMOthiTia. from AprUti lo May 21, of the year or the world 2614, which answers to like month of this atcond jMT after the departmv from Egypt As there ave no deUa \(j which any chronological arrangement of the facts men' ItMMd in it can ba laade, it veuid be oselesa u socnsnber the page with Qoi^jeetures, whtdi, because unetrtain, can answer no end to the serious reader for doetrine, raproof| or edineation in ri^teoasneas. As the law vos our adtoeHm*tttrwKU lbs wkitosserifioiBi system was intended to poim oat tut iiOmA ^^GmL
9mi^ tinning iKumtHd. In reading' om thir book, AUs poiat dicald b* kept partiaikrjyia Tiew; aavilhout dUs •pinCual ntttioM, m ialcrest can be exeited by a penual of^ the work. Tbit principal evenU recordad in this book, may be dius deduced in the order of the chasterBi
Mtmm having set up the tabernacle, as boa been related in the conclusion of the preceoing book, and the cload of dirine gloiy, the symbol of the presence of God, haviDg rested upon it, God called to him out of tnis tabenMwle^ aad deUvered the laws and precepts contained in the seven first chapters.
In Ch^. i. be pieacribea everv thiiu relative to the nature and quality of humt-^eringt, and the eemnoBioa isUdi should ba observed, as well by toe penoa who brouffu the sacrifice, as by tbe pnest who offisred it
In Chap. U, be treat* of meof-t^rfitgv, «( fine flour, vith oil aad frankiucenBet of eaka^ aad dieiiUadiHW «f flrat-fraits.
Chap. Ui. treau of peaa-offeringB, preacribea the ceremonies to be used ia such oCTering^ and tbe parts which iliould be eoBsumed vr fire.