[465] See Lane, and Freytag, s. vv., Khatan, Khatana.
[466] Gen. 22 : 1, 2.
[467] “Heaven awaits not one who is destitute of a son,” say the Brahmans (See page [194], supra). See, also, e. g., Thomson’s Land and Book, I., 177; Roberts’s Orient. Ill., p. 53 f., Ginsburg’s “Illustrations,” in Bible Educator, I., 30; Lane’s Mod. Egypt., I., 68. Livingstone’s Trav. and Res. in So. Af., p. 140; Pierotti’s Cust. and Trad. of Pal., pp. 177 f., 190 f.
[468] See illustrations of this error in Tylor’s Prim. Cult., II., 403.
[469] See page [185] f., supra.
[470] See page [119] f., supra.
[473] See page [118] f., [120] f., supra.
[474] See discussions of this point, by Hengstenberg, Kurtz, Oehler, Ewald, Kuenen, Lange, Keil and Delitzsch, Stanley, Mozeley, etc.