Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder.
- Samuel Burder
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8. “ And, since thou wast a laugher in their presence, from laughter shalt thou acquire a name. Then he gave to Sherma the wide domain on the south of the snowy mountain, 9. “ And to Jya’peti he gave all on the north of the snowy mountain; but he, by the power of religious con- templation, attained supreme bliss.” Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 465. No. 6.—xvi. 12. Ilis hand will be against every man, and eveiy man's hand against him.] “ The one is the natural, and almost necessary consequence of the other. Ishmael lived by prey and rapine in the wilderness: and his posterity have all along in- fested Arabia and the neighbouring countries with their robberies and incursions. They live in a state of continual war with the rest of the world, and are both robbers by land, and pirates by sea. As they have been such enemies to mankind, it is no wonder that man- kind have been enemies to them again ; that several at- tempts have been made to extirpate them ; and even now as well as formerly travellers are forced to go with arms, and in caravans or large companies, and to march and keep watch like a little army, to defend themselves from the assaults of these free-booters, who run about in troops, and rob and plunder all whom they can by any means subdue. These robberies they also justify, bv alledging the hard usage of their father Ishmael, who being turned out of doors by Abraham, had the open plaiifc and deserts given him by God for his patrimony, with permission to take whatever he could lind there; and on this account they think they may, with a safe conscience, indemnify themselves, as well as they can, not only on the posterity of Isaac, but also on every body else; always supposing a kind of kindred between (](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22040900_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
