[715] See Gen. 13 : 18; 14 : 13; 18 : 1.

[716] The covenant was “with” [Hebrew, עִם ’im, not “with” as an instrument, but “with” as in the presence of, as accompanied by] the tree at Shechem.

[717] See page [218], supra, note.

[718] Judges 9 : 1-6.

[719] Robinson’s Biblical Researches, II., 210 f., note.

[720] Von Wrede’s Reise in Hadhramaut, p. 197 f.

[721] See reference (in footnote 585 at page [268] f. supra) to the custom in Sumatra, of taking an oath over the “grave of the original patriarch of the Passumah.”

[722] Lady of the Lake, Canto III.

[723] Ibid., note.

[724] See pages [13], [86] f., supra.