. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . lik, which flowsinto the Euphrates about fifty miles southof the town. Within a few years, some havedoubted the identity of this village with thepatriarchal Haran, and have urged the claims 1 Gen. xi., 31, 32; xii., 4, 5; xxiv., 10; 43;xxviii., 10; xxix.,4; 2 Kings xix., 12; Isa. xxxvii.,12; Ezek. xxvii., 23. HAEE 415 HAKKOW of a small village called Harran-el-Awamed,about four hours journey east of Damascus,o
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . lik, which flowsinto the Euphrates about fifty miles southof the town. Within a few years, some havedoubted the identity of this village with thepatriarchal Haran, and have urged the claims 1 Gen. xi., 31, 32; xii., 4, 5; xxiv., 10; 43;xxviii., 10; xxix.,4; 2 Kings xix., 12; Isa. xxxvii.,12; Ezek. xxvii., 23. HAEE 415 HAKKOW of a small village called Harran-el-Awamed,about four hours journey east of Damascus,on the western borders of the lake into whichthe Barada and the Awaj empty the other opinion is regarded by mostscholars as the better one. Hare, one of the animals prohibited asfood to the Israelites, by Lev. xi.; not becauseit chewed the cud, but because, though it wassaid to chW the cud, it did not divide thehoof. The description of the hare in ourversion is (verse 6)—And the hare, becausehe cheweth the cud, but divideth not thehoof. In fact, neither the hare nor the co-ney (verse 5) chews the cud; but both ani-mals have a peculiar movement of the mouth. Hare of Mount Sinai. resembling that of those which do chew thecud. The description was of a popular char-acter, intended not for zoologists, but for or-dinary observers; and the non-division ofthe hoof, and not the chewing of the cud, orotherwise, was the characteristic which de-termined the cleanness or uncleanness of thehare for food. Hares are very plentiful inPalestine; at least two species have been ob-served. In their general habits these haresresemble the species found in our own coun-try. [Lev. xi., 6; Deut. xiv., 7.] Harlot. This class of persons evidentlyexisted in very early times, and were distin-guished by their Their manners andallurements are frequently described in Their gains were sometimes consid-erable. No gift arising from such iniquitywas to be received in the sanctu
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