. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. iown in tlie cut at page U4. Our present Chap. IV.] SINAI. 205 The. practical director of all the work was an ingenious man of the tribe of Jiidah, Bezaleeltlie son of Uri, the son of Hur ; and with him was Aholiah, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribeof Dan, an engraver, and designer, and embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet. [Wiiidinji the Yarn.] and in cotton. It is so far satisfactory, that these curious, and, for the age, interesting workswere not executed under the direction of Eg
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. iown in tlie cut at page U4. Our present Chap. IV.] SINAI. 205 The. practical director of all the work was an ingenious man of the tribe of Jiidah, Bezaleeltlie son of Uri, the son of Hur ; and with him was Aholiah, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribeof Dan, an engraver, and designer, and embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet. [Wiiidinji the Yarn.] and in cotton. It is so far satisfactory, that these curious, and, for the age, interesting workswere not executed under the direction of Egyptians, although it is not unlikely that the skill ofsuch of that nation as were ill the camp was made available in some of the practical operations;but there can be no question that Bezaleel and Aholiah had been instructed in Egypt in thatknowledge which qualified them for the service they imdertook. No one will, at the presentday, contend that the Hebrews could know anything of the finer arts, but what they had learntof the Egyptians during their sojourn and bondage in Egypt. And in this point of view thecostly and ingenious works which v, ere executed in the desert throw much light upon the stateof the arts in that early age among the Egyptians, while they illustrate the extent of theobligations of the Israelites, in the finer arts of life, to that ingenious people. The informationthus supplied is perfectly in agreement w
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