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Excerpt from The Book of Amos: With Notes
Common, again, to both was the religious practice of the day. We hear of pilgrimages to famous shrines, and of solemn assemblies 1n the local sanctuaries, where music and singing accompanied the acts of worship. The sacrifices included most of those mentioned in the later law books, the burnt offering, the meal offering, the free-will offering, the thanksgiving offering (v. 21 - 23, iv. The new moons and sabbaths were observed by the cessation of labour (viii. Amos knows of a law prohibiting the use of leaven with sacrifices (iv. 5, cf. Ex. Xxiii. And distinguishing between clean and unclean foods (vii. 17, cf. Hos. Ix.
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