204 Or, as you wish. 205 The Gemara says it was so called because Parva, a magician, built this room and digged through from it to see the service of the High Priest on the day of atonement; or else because it was used for storing “bullock-hides.” 206 Literally, between the evenings. 207 The mina of the sanctuary was worth about £5 14s., consequently the morning dress cost about £68 8s. 208 The zuz was worth about 6-1/2d., consequently the evening dress cost about £21 13s. 4d. 209 Literally, “cover over”; _i.e._, “atone for.” 210 King of Adiabene, a proselyte to Judaism about A.D. 45. 211 The accused woman. 212 See Treatise on “Measurements,” ii. 3, note. 213 A. V. “Scapegoat,” or for the “devil.” Others translate “wholly put away” in reference to the sins of the people, or for “the hard mountain,” and others the “demon of dry places.” Some, however, think Azazel to be the fallen angel mentioned in the Book of Enoch, and identical with Sammael, the angel of death. Symmachus translates “the goat that departs.” Theodotion translates “the goat sent away.” Aquila, “the goat set free.” The LXX. and Josephus understand by the term “the averter of ills,” and the Vulgate “caper emissarius.” 214 A tongue-shaped piece of scarlet wool. 215 A cab contained 2.8333 pints. 216 A seah contained one peck and one pint. 217 On the altar. 218 The size of the priest’s hands was proportionate to his stature. 219 That he had been struck dead. 220 Supposed by some to be the SUKHRAH in the present Mosque of OMAR. From its position, however, it seems more probably to have been the foundation of the altar of burnt-offerings. This sacred rock is sixty feet across and five feet high. It is pierced quite through, to allow, as some think, the blood of the sacrifices to flow off into the “Noble Cave” and the canals beneath it. 221 A priest continued to stir the blood to prevent its coagulation. 222 Or, “as a thrasher.” 223 Or, “as a thrasher.” 224 Or, “the clean place.” _ 225 I.e._, the gardeners became liable for a trespass-offering. 226 R. Judah addresses in imagination the goat. 227 It seems, according to the Talmud, that there was no “laying on of hands” on either the morning or evening sacrifice; or on any other public sacrifice, excepting the scapegoat and the bullock, when the congregation had sinned through ignorance. 228 Lev. xvi. 30. 229 Or viaduct, or causeway. 230 Supposed to be Alexandrine Jews, so called from hatred to the Babylonians. 231 Zuk is supposed by Lieutenant Conder of the Palestine Exploration Fund to be the modern el Mûntâr, about six and a half miles east of Jerusalem in the direction of the Dead Sea, and on the way to the ruins of Mird (Mons Mardes). A well near the place is still called Bir es Sûk.