An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word.
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An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word.
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Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Dawson for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shoppe at the signe of the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, neere the Royall Exchange,
1632.
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Jewish law -- Early works to 1800.
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"An explication of the iudiciall lawes of Moses. Plainely discovering divers of their ancient rites and customes. As in their governours, government, synedrion, punishments, civill accompts, contracts, marriages, warres, and burialls. Also their oeconomicks, (vizt.) their dwellings, feasting, clothing, and husbandrie. Together with two treatises, the one shewing the different estate of the godly and wicked in this life, and in the life to come. The other, declaring how the wicked may be inlightned by the preaching of the gospel, and yet become worse after they be illuminated. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, and doe serue as a speciall helpe for the true understanding of divers difficult texts of scriptures. ... / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods word." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B16297.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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Of the manner how they threshed their corne.
THey had sundry formes in threshing of their corne; First, they beat out their weaker graine with a staffe, as their fitches, and cummin, Esay 28. 27. And this staffe was not unlike to our failes.
Againe, some of their graine was trodden out with the feete of Oxen or Horses; with Oxen Deut. 25. 4. Thou shalt not mussle the mouth of the Oxe, that treadeth out the corne. And Hosea alludeth to this forme, Ephraim is an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corne, Hos. 10. 11. So with the feete of horses, Esay 28. 28.
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nor bruise it with his horsemen; or else it was bruised out with an instrument of wood, which was either a plaine peice of wood set with teeth of yron, to cut the straw and bruise out the corne; This was called hharutz, for the sharpnesse of it. Or else they used a wheele to bruise it out, and this was called gneglah, as the first was cal∣led trahea.
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