[530] “From its derivation it might also be rendered, the offering of completion” (Edersheim’s _The Temple, Its Min. and Serv._, p. 106). [531] See page 149, _supra_. [532] Edersheim’s _The Temple, Its Min. and Serv._, p. 86. [533] Psa. 16 : 4, 5. [534] Heb. 9 : 8. [535] Heb. 10 : 4. [536] Psa. 50 : 7-17. [537] Isaiah 1 : 11-17. [538] Isa. 25 : 6. [539] Jer. 7 : 21-23. [540] Hosea 6 : 4-7. [541] Deut. 10 : 14-16. [542] Deut. 30 : 1-6. [543] Gal. 3 : 7-9; Rom. 4 : 11, 12. [544] Rom. 2 : 26-29; Phil. 3 : 3. [545] Prov. 3 : 1-4. [546] Prov. 7 : 2, 3. [547] Jer. 31 : 31-34. [548] Col. 2 : 17. [549] Num. 35 : 12; Deut. 19 : 6, 12; Josh. 20 : 3, 5, 9. [550] Num. 35 : 19, 21, 24, 25, 27; 2 Sam. 14 : 11. [551] Job 19 : 25; Psa. 19 : 14; 78 : 35; Prov. 23 : 11; Isa. 41 : 14; 43 : 14; 44 : 6, 24; 47 : 4; 48 : 17; 49 : 7, 26; 54 : 5, 8; 59 : 20; 60 : 16; 63 : 16; Jer. 50 : 34. [552] Comp. Isa. 51 : 10; Jer. 31 : 11. [553] “A term of which the original import is uncertain. The very obscurity of its etymology testifies to the antiquity of the office which it denotes.” (_Speaker’s Com._ at Num. 35 : 12.) [554] Cited from Herzog’s B. Cycl., in Keil and Delitzsch’s _Bib. Com. on the Pent._, at Num. 35 : 9-34. [555] See Niebuhr’s _Beschreibung von Arabien_, p. 32 f.; Burckhardt’s _Beduinen und Wahaby_, pp. 119-127; Lane’s _Thousand and One Nights_, I., 431, note; Pierotti’s _Customs and Traditions of Palestine_, pp. 220-227; Mrs. Finn’s “The Fellaheen of Palestine,” in _Surv. of West Pal._, “Special Papers,” pp. 342-346. [556] Comp. Exod. 21 : 18-27; 22 : 14-17; Lev. 27 : 1-8. [557] Num. 36 : 30-34. [558] Sooras, 2 and 17. [559] Livingstone and Stanley on several occasions, made payments, or had them made, to avoid a conflict on a question of blood. See, e. g. _Trav. and Res. in So. Africa_, pp. 390, 368-370, 482 f., _The Congo_, I., 520-527. [560] _Reise in Hadhramaut_, p. 199. [561] _Surv. of West. Pal._, “Special Papers,” p. 342. [562] _A Pilgrimage to Mec. and Med._, 357. [563] _Cust. and Trad. of Pal._, p. 221. [564] _A Pilgrimage_, p. 367. [565] See pages 126-133, _supra_. [566] See page 132 f., _supra_. [567] Pierotti’s _Cust. and Trad. of Pal._, p. 216. [568] Comp. Gen. 15 : 18; Jer. 34 : 18; 2 Sam. 12 : 17. [569] See Gesenius, Fuerst, Cocceius, s. v. [570] Gen. 21 : 22-24. [571] See pages 14, 16, 20, 22, 25, 27, etc., _supra_. [572] See page 47, _supra_. [573] Gen. 21 : 31. [574] Comp. Gen. 31 : 44-47. [575] Gen. 21 : 30. [576] See page 53, _supra_. [577] Gen. 21 : 33. [578] See references to the blood-stained covenant-tree, in Appendix, _infra_. [579] Gen. 22 : 18. [580] See page 61 f., _supra_. [581] Gen. 26 : 25-29. [582] Gen. 26 : 30, 31. [583] See page 62, _supra_. [584] Comp. Gen. 12 : 6-8; 28 : 18-22; 31 : 19-36.