OF

THE OLD COVENANT,

FROM THE GERMAN OF

J. H. KURTZ, D. D.,

PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY AT DORFAT.

VOL. III.

TRANSLATED

BY JAMES MARTIN, B.A.,

NOTTINGHAM.

DIVINITY SCHOOL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY.

PHILADELPHIA:

LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON.

1859.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

SECOND STEP TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION.

SOJOURN OF ISRAEL IN ARABIA PETRÆA, AND THE FIELD OF MOAB;

OR, THE GIVING OF THE LAW. A PERIOD OF FORTY YEARS.

PART I.

HISTORICAL GROUNDWORK, AND CIRCUMSTANCES

CONNECTED WITH THE GIVING OF THE LAW.

Geographical Survey of the Road to Rephidim and the Country round Sinai, 61

Preparations for Giving the Law and Concluding the Covenant,

Promulgation of the Fundamental Law,

The Law of Sacrifice and the Institution of the Levitical Priesthood,

Continuation and Conclusion of the Sinaitic Legislation,

Preparations for Leaving Sinai, .

102

117

140

146

151

169

188

191

195

199

Rebellion of the People and Judgment of God at Kadesh,

285

Rebellion of the Korah Faction, and Confirmation of the Aaronic Priest-

hood,

293

The Thirty-seven Years' Ban,

300

Division of the Land on the East of the Jordan. Regulations with re-

gard to Conquest of the Country to the West of the Jordan,

464

470

490

502

523

531

SECOND STEP

TOWARDS THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION.

SOJOURN OF ISRAEL IN ARABIA PETREA,

AND THE

FIELD OF MOAB;

OR,

THE GIVING OF THE LAW.

A PERIOD OF 40 YEARS.

PART I.

HISTORICAL GROUNDWORK, AND CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THE GIVING OF THE LAW.

A

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