Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[426] Tabari, i. p. 247; taken from the Rabbinic Yaschar (Sepher Hajaschar), p. 1226.

[427] Midrash, Jalkut. fol. 47; Yaschar, p. 1225; Berescheth Rabba, fol. 84, col. 4.

[428] Yaschar, p. 1226.

[429] This was the shirt given Abraham by Gabriel, to preserve him from the fire into which Nimrod cast him; it was fragrant with the odors of Paradise.

[430] Koran, Sura xii.; Tabari, i. pp. 250, 251.

[431] Yaschar, p. 1227.

[432] Vita Aseneth, filiæ Potipharis; a Greek apocryphal book, in Fabricius, iii. p. 85.

[433] Lib. de Mensuris et Ponderibus, § 10.

[434] Ephes. v. 14.

[435] Thess. ii. 16.