The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

by H. Clay Trumbull

[555] See Niebuhr’s Beschreibung von Arabien, p. 32 f.; Burckhardt’s Beduinen und Wahaby, pp. 119-127; Lane’s Thousand and One Nights, I., 431, note; Pierotti’s Customs and Traditions of Palestine, pp. 220-227; Mrs. Finn’s “The Fellaheen of Palestine,” in Surv. of West Pal., “Special Papers,” pp. 342-346.

[556] Comp. Exod. 21 : 18-27; 22 : 14-17; Lev. 27 : 1-8.

[557] Num. 36 : 30-34.

[558] Sooras, 2 and 17.

[559] Livingstone and Stanley on several occasions, made payments, or had them made, to avoid a conflict on a question of blood. See, e. g. Trav. and Res. in So. Africa, pp. 390, 368-370, 482 f., The Congo, I., 520-527.

[560] Reise in Hadhramaut, p. 199.

[561] Surv. of West. Pal., “Special Papers,” p. 342.

[562] A Pilgrimage to Mec. and Med., 357.

[563] Cust. and Trad. of Pal., p. 221.

[564] A Pilgrimage, p. 367.