The Hebrew text of the parallel prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the twelve tribes; with a translation and notes. And the various lections of near forty mss. To which are added 1o. The Samaritan-Arabic version of those passages, and part of another Arabic version made from the Samaritan text; neither of which have been before printed; IIo. A map of the Land of Promise. and IIIo. An appendix containing four dissertations. [Title continues in note] / by D. Durell, B.D. principal of Hertford College.

David Durell

Date:: 1763

Credit: The Hebrew text of the parallel prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the twelve tribes; with a translation and notes. And the various lections of near forty mss. To which are added 1o. The Samaritan-Arabic version of those passages, and part of another Arabic version made from the Samaritan text; neither of which have been before printed; IIo. A map of the Land of Promise. and IIIo. An appendix containing four dissertations. [Title continues in note] / by D. Durell, B.D. principal of Hertford College. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ן 42 The parallel PROPHECIES of confervate, quod Dens fcutum au~ xilii tui, ille qui gladius eft excel- lent ice tuce: & mentientur tibi ini- jmid tut\ & tu fuper excelfa eo- rum calcabis. JkUl (Ju-<s*v c5A31 Jr~^ *^—י*y2• U3^׳־ £3ל^ו* NOTES On the forty ninth Chapter of GENESIS. V. i. ^^alled] Jacob, fenftble that his laft Hour drew near, and having made an End of blefling Jofeph’s two Sons, as is re- lated at length in the preceding Chapter; now calls all his Sons together, that he might take his laft Farewell of them. That which shall befall you] We have in Scripture Inftances of Fathers fummoning their Children, or Magiftrates the People under their Charge, to attend to their laft Words: a where the Declarations, except in the Cafe of Ifaac, are to be regarded rather as Prayers for their Profperity, or as Directions for their ConduCt, than in the Light of Pro- phecies. But in the remarkable Prophecy before us we have as it were an Epitome of the Hiftory of the moft extraordinary Nation that ever exifted, for near the fpace of 1500 Years; we have FaCts, fo remote, and fome of them fo extraordinary, foretold in it, that, as they are in- finitely beyond the Penetration of human Sagacity, they muft be allow- ed by every fair Inquirer, when he fees how exactly they were fulfilled, to have been dictated by the unerring Spirit of God. An Opinion prevailed very early in the World, that the Soul when it Was near departing from the Body acquired a prefaging Faculty. Socra.־ a Gen, XXVII. 4, j Kings II. 1. Jofh, XXIII, XXIV, tes$

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