9. There is a primitive paradise and state of moral purity in each story. 10. A tree whose fruit produced immortality is noticed in each cosmogony. 11. A serpent figures in each, and outwits Brahma and Jehovah. 12. Man in each partakes of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. 13. The doctrine of the fall is found in each account. The means for man's restoration is provided in each case. 14. Each sacred legend has a story of a war in heaven. 15. The soul is the breath of life, or breath of God, in each cosmogony. 16. Labor is imposed as a curse in each case. 17. A moral code of ten commandments is found in each system. Not to kill is a command in each decalogue. Stealing is interdicted in each decalogue. Adultery is condemned in each. Bearing false witness is forbidden by each. 18. Both Brahmins and Jews lost their "Holy Law," or "Laws of God." One had a Hilkiah, and the other a Bisheu, to find the law. 19. Each had an established order of priesthood. The priesthood was hereditary in each case: a tribe or family furnished the priests in each case. 20. Both claimed to be God's pet and holy, or peculiar, people; and both styled other nations barbarians or aliens. 21. Both holy nations were forbidden to marry with others; and both were too holy to eat with barbarians. 22. Each had a ceremonial law prescribing numerous rites. The church ceremonies were performed by priests in each. 23. The priests were forbidden to eat meat in both cases. 24. Both Jews and Brahmins worshiped by bloody sacrifices. Both had their favorite sacred animals. Animal sacrifices were by each to arrest public calamities. 25. One interdicted beef, and the other pork, as food. 26. Both prescribed purification after touching dead bodies; and each religion had a law of purification. Bathing was a mode of purification in each religion. 27. Each has its "holy" places, times, days, cities, mountains, rivers, &c. India, as well as Judea, was considered a holy land. 28. Each had its holy ground. Both drew off their shoes on entering upon holy ground or holy places. 29. Both had their holy days, and the same in most cases. 30. Mount Mera was no less holy than Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb. Jordan was a sacred river in one case, and Ganges in the other. Jerusalem was a "holy" city with the Jews, and Benares with the Hindoos. 31. Holy fasts and feasts were a part of each religion. Both made u holy feast at full moon. 32. Each had its holy fires. 33. Both had their holy mysteries kept sacredly guarded. 34. Each prepared and kept holy water for ceremonial purposes. 35. Both anointed themselves with "holy ointment." 36. Each claimed to have the only true and "holy faith." 37. "Holy temples" were familiar terms to each. Their temples were constructed in a similar manner. Each had a "_sanctum sanctorum_," or "holy of holies." Only the holy priest of both entered the interior sanctum. 38. Both had their drink-offerings (called _turpin_ by the Hindoos).