The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,. To the choirmaster. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers. A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you, when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. But you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,.
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people. Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch! I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.
Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Many people call the Bible "The Good Book.
How many bones are in a domestic pigeon's Columba livia skeleton? Domestic Duties General Topics for Kids. We ask our submitters to thoroughly research questions and provide sources where possible. Feel free to post corrections or additions. This is server B Furthermore, they were legally protected. Diodorus Siculus 1st cent BCE writes that even the unintentional killing of a cat was a capital offence:.
The people gather and kill him. An unfortunate Roman, who accidentally killed a cat, could not be saved, either by King Ptolemy of Egypt or by the fear which Rome inspired. Furthermore, he placed before his front-line all those animals, including cats, that he knew the Egyptians held dear.
Fearing to injure the animals the Egyptian army took flight and was massacred. After the battle, it is reported that the cats were thrown into the faces of the defeated Egyptians by Cambyses, disgusted that a nation should surrender to ensure the safety of animals.
It is appreciated that veneration or reverence is not the same as the close relational bond between an owner and their pet. Cat related artefacts and osteological evidence are much sparser to the norther of Israel; although larger felines like leopard and cheetah are quite often artistically depicted in Mesopotamian art Borowski, and Nevertheless, this should not be interpreted as indicating their absence or lack of social importance in this region.
In fact, genetic analysis points to domestic cats all having descended from at least five founder cats from the fertile crescent see Driscoll, et. Although there is a lack of evidence for a native population species, remains of cats have been found in a number of other burial sites on Cyprus PPNB and later. This has led to suggestions that domestic or semi-domestic cats were brought to the island by boat roughly 9, BCE. The discovery of such early interment of cats is highly suggestive of a close bond — however, paucity of supporting evidence means that, for the moment, this practice remains frustratingly shrouded in mystery.
Caution must be exercised against reading too much into the Parekklisha-Shillourokambos find. Even if it does indicate a ritual or even relational bond as with a pet , this practice appears to be a rarity.
Furthermore, any attitudes of reverence or sentimentality towards the cat does not seem to be shared by its neighbours. Schwartz argues that they were even considered as khrafstra. This was a term given to pests and vermin that, despite the general aversion to killing, were legally and ritually allowed to be killed see Foltz, For a short while cat lovers could take comfort from the discovery of an artefact uncovered at Nimrud Assyria in the s fig. If ND was a cat, it would suggest that it shared a ritualistic function alongside the dog.
The absence of Israelite literary and artefact representations of cats would suggest that its attitude to them more closely reflects that found in their north-eastern neighbours rather than those to the south Egypt.
Evidence for the presence of cats in this region is attested by zooarcheological data. Clutton-Brock reports that felid remains, dating to around BCE, have been excavated from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho as well as at other prehistoric sites and argues that this would indicate, at least, some form of human-cat interrelationship.
Borowski also notes that the remains of six small cats were found at the Iron Age II site at Ashdod. And yet the biblical texts make no mention of them. The closest we can get is a very brief reference in the satirical, deuterocanonical apocryphal text of the Letter of Jeremiah also called Baruch 6.
That states:. The problem that this texts poses is that, although most experts believe it was originally written in Hebrew, we only have the Greek text of it.
It contains a number of apparent mistranslations of Hebrew which creates its, at times, rather confusing language. This is made even more complicated by the way in which animal taxonomy developed within antiquity which is often at odds with the Linaean classification used by the modern West for a very good discussion of ancient Jewish classification of animals and the challenges it raises, see Slifkin It is only with the emergence of Talmudic Judaism that we begin to get references to the cat in the Mishnah.
However, even here, cat lovers do not get much joy. The students of Rabbi Elazar asked him: For what reason does a dog recognize its master, while a cat does not recognize its master? Rabbi Elazar said to them: If it is established that with regard to one who eats from that which a mouse eats, eating that item causes him to forget, with regard to the cat, who eats the mouse itself, all the more so does eating it cause it to forget.
Babylonian Talmud. Horayoth 13a Sefaria. Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter. Updated November 07, Cite this Article Format. Fairchild, Mary. Christian Symbols Illustrated Glossary. Bible Verses About Protecting the Environment. Gain a Christian Perspective on the Passover Feast. Degrees of Sin and Punishment in Hell.
0コメント