. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . orld, &c. (7.) The absence of any distinct refer-ence to the Ten Commandments as such in the Pirke Aboth (= Maxims of the Fathers) is both strangeand significant. With all their ostentation of pro-found reverence for the Law, the teaching of theRabbis turned on other points than the great lawsof duty. Death ; Faith ; Jehovah : Justify ;Law ; Law of Moses ; Love ; Revelation ; Sal-vation ; Sin, &c. Tent (Heb. usually ohel; see Tabernacle). Amongthe leading characteristics of the nomad races, thosetwo have always been numbered, whose origin hasbeen asc
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . orld, &c. (7.) The absence of any distinct refer-ence to the Ten Commandments as such in the Pirke Aboth (= Maxims of the Fathers) is both strangeand significant. With all their ostentation of pro-found reverence for the Law, the teaching of theRabbis turned on other points than the great lawsof duty. Death ; Faith ; Jehovah : Justify ;Law ; Law of Moses ; Love ; Revelation ; Sal-vation ; Sin, &c. Tent (Heb. usually ohel; see Tabernacle). Amongthe leading characteristics of the nomad races, thosetwo have always been numbered, whose origin hasbeen ascribed to Jabal the son of Lamech (Gen. ), viz. to be tent-dwellers and keepers of cattle.(Herd ; Shepherd.) The same may be said of theforefathers of the Hebrew race (Patriarch) ; norwas it until the return into Canaan from Egypt thatthe Hebrews became inhabitants of cities. (Archi-tecture.) Among tent-dwellers at the present dayare (1.) the great Mongol and Tartar hordes of Cen-tral Asia, whose tents are sometimes of gigantic. Arab Tent.—(Layard.) size, and (2.) the Bedouin Arab tribes, whose tentsare probably like those of Abraham and Isaac. AnArab tent is minutely described by Burckhardt. Itis called beit — house ; its covering consists ofstuff, about three-quarters of a yard broad, madeof black goats-hair (Cant. i. 5), laid parallel withthe tents length. This is sufficient to resist theheaviest rain. The tent-poles are usually nine,placed in three groups, but many tents have onlyone pole, others two or three. The ropes whichhold the tent in its place are fastened, .not to thetent-cover itself, but to loops consisting of a leath-ern thong tied to the ends of a stick, round which apiece of old cloth sewed to the tent-cover is ends of the tent-ropes are fastened to shortsticks or pins, which are driven into the ground witha mallet (Judg. iv. 21 ; Jael). Round the back andsides of the tents runs a piece of stuff removable atpleasure to admit air. The tent i
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