See Gesenius’s _Heb. Lex._, s. v. “Nasa.” Footnote 238: See, for example, Exod. 3 : 19; 13 : 3, 14, 16; 32 : 11; Deut. 3 : 24; 4 : 34; 5 : 15; 6 : 21; 7 : 8, 19; 9 : 26; 11 : 2, etc.; 2 Chron. 6 : 32; Ezek. 20 : 34; Dan. 9 : 15. Footnote 239: Ellis’s _Polynesian Researches_, II., 207, illustration. Footnote 240: Stephens’s _Incidents of Travels in Yucatan_, II., 46 f. Footnote 241: Stephens’s _Incidents of Travel in Yucatan_, Appendix, II., 476–478. Footnote 242: _Ibid._, II., 477. Footnote 243: See Gen. 49 : 8–17; Num. 27 : 22 f.; Acts 4 : 4; 6 : 6; 8 : 18; 13 : 3; 19 : 6; Heb. 6 : 2; 1 Tim. 4 : 14. Footnote 244: See, for example, “a scene in the hypostyle hall at Lûxor,” in Maspero’s _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 111.; also, illustration in Perrot and Chipiez’s _Hist. of Art in Anc. Egypt_, I., 45. Footnote 245: Catlin’s “Eight Years amongst the North American Indians,” II., pp. 5–7; cited in Donaldson’s _George Catlin Indian Gallery_, p. 263. Footnote 246: In a personal letter to the Author. Footnote 247: See Bourke’s _Medicine Men of the Apaches_, Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Footnote 248: Variae nationes, inter quas Americæ aborigines sunt, sanguinem menstrualem sacrissimum atque in eo boni malique vim esse putant, quia non solum modo omnis sanguinis vita ipsa sit, sed vitae humanae germina vel ova quibus species hominum transmittuntur in se contineat. Quod quam verum sit quantamque vim ad foedieris liminis notionem principalem intellegendam habeat infra videtur. For illustrations of this truth see H. Ploss’s _Das Weib in der Natur. und Völkerkunde_ (2d ed.), I., chap. 39; Strack’s _Der Blutaberglaube_ (4th ed.), pp. 14–18; Spivak’s _Menstruation_, pp. 6–12; and Frazer’s _Golden Bough_, I., 170; II., 225–240. These illustrations are gathered from Asia, Africa, Europe, America, and the Islands of the Sea; and they include citations from Pliny, the Talmud, the Christian Fathers, medieval writers, and down to writers of this century. “Apud populum Novæ Zelandæ creditur sanguinem utero sub tempus menstruale effusum continere germina hominis; et secundum præcepta veteris superstitionis panniculus sanguine menstruali imbutus habebatur sacer (_tapu_), haud aliter quam si formam humanam accepisset. Mulierum autem mos est hos panniculos intra juncos parietum abdere: et hâc de causâ paries est domûs pars adeo sacra ut nemo illi innixus sedere audeat. Opinio animis N. Zelandorum insita–nempe sanguinem menstruum germina humanæ speciei continere–opinionibus hodiernis convenit: multi enim physiologiæ scientissimi credunt rumpi vesiculam gräafianam, et ex illâ ova delabi circa tempora menstrualia.”–Shortland’s _Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders_, p. 292. Footnote 249: Landor’s _Corea or Cho-sen_, p. 156. Footnote 250: Orme’s _Hist. of Milit. Trans. of British in Indostan_, V., 348. Footnote 251: