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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![whereon were engraven certain characters: and, after that, the persons who came to consult the oracle used certain forms of incantation, and so calling upon the devil, received their answers several ways ; sometimes by articulate sounds, sometimes by the characters, which were in the cup, rising upon the surface of the water, and by this arrangement forming the answer; and many times by the visible appearing of the per- sons themselves about whom the oracle was consulted. Cornelius Agrippa (cle occult. Philos. 1. i. cap. 57) tells us likewise, that the manner of some was to pour melted wax into the cup, wherein was water, which wax would range itself into order, and so form answers, according to the questions proposed. Saurin’s Diss. 38. No. 34.—xlvii. 19. Bup us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharoah.] From the Gentoo laws it appears that such a purchase as that made by Joseph was not an unusual thing. Particular provision is made in these institutes for the release of those who were thus brought into bondage. “ Who- ever, having received his victuals from a person during the time of a famine, hath become his slave, upon giving to his provider whatever he received from him during the time of the famine, and also two head of cattle, may become free from his servitude, according to the ordina- tion of Pcicheshputtee Misr.—Approved.” “Whoever having been given up as a pledge for money lent, per- forms service to the creditor, recovers his liberty when- ever the debtor discharges the debt; if the debtor neg- lects to pay the creditor his money, and takes no thought of the person whom he left as a pledge, that person be- comes the purchased slave of the creditor.” Gentoo Laws, p. 140.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22040900_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
