[941] Zimmern ingeniously suggests la bir, "not pure," instead of the rendering 'old.'
[942] Isaiah i. 1.
[943] See Jensen's remarks, Kosmologie, p. 387. There is no reference to Shurippak in IIR. 46, 1, as Haupt has shown (see his note in the 3rd edition of Schrader's Keilinscriften und das Alte Testament).
[944] Gen. xix.
[945] Hughes, Dictionary of Islam, sub "Ad" and "Salih".
[946] See above, p. [488], [note 2].
[947] Lit., 'construct a house'; house is used for any kind of structure in general.
[948] I.e., let your property go and save your family.
[950] L. 45.