[11] Num. 18 : 19.
[12] 2 Chron. 13 : 5.
[13] Lev. 2 : 13.
[14] Ezra 4 : 14.
[15] Ezra 6 : 8-10.
[16] Ezra 7 : 22.
[17] Plutarch's Sympos. (Goodwin's edition), Book IV. Ques. IV., § 3.
[18] See Trumbull's Studies in Oriental Social Life, pp. 361-363.
[19] See Burckhardt's Travels in Syria, p. 294 f.; Beduinen und Wahaby, p. 144 f.; Niebuhr's Beschreibung von Arabien, p. 48; Lane's The Thousand and One Nights, II., 423, note 21; Wetzstein's Sprachliches, p. 28 f.; Denham and Clapperton's Travels and Discoveries in Africa, p. xli; Warburton's The Crescent and the Cross, fifth ed., II., 167 f.; Pierrotti's Customs and Traditions of Palestine, p. 210 f.; Burton's Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, III., 86; Thomson's The Land and the Book, II., 40-43; Merrill's East of the Jordan, pp. 488-491; Harmer's Observations, fifth ed., I., 388 f.; Doughty's Travels in Arabian Deserts, I., 228; Studies in Oriental Social Life, pp. 73-142; W. Robertson Smith's Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, p. 149 f. Compare also Gen. 24 : 12-14; Deut. 23 : 3, 4; 1 Sam. 25 : 10, 11; 1 Kings 18 : 4; Job 22 : 7; Matt. 10 : 42; Mark 9 : 41; John 4 : 9.
[20] Hamlin's Among the Turks, p. 175 f.