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PAR. 26.
YEt this could not be a durable, and fixed Ceremony, but was appropriated to the Aegyptian Passeover; for how could the master of the family, and his next neighbour, or neighbours take it together, when all they, who dwelt farre off, went to Jerusalem; and most had no houses there; but went to their several friends or kindred, or hired houses, perhaps farre distant, one from another; so that they, who were next neighbours, in the severall Tribes, Cities, Townes, or Villages, might sojourne farre asunder, whilst they were Commorant, for that weeke, at Ieru∣salem, to observe the passeover: Besides, no Angell of destruction having the like commission to slay them, they might, in after times, seeke out kindred, or friends more remote, leaving the like liberty to their next neighbours.