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I send this elegy, which, indeed, if you had not had the curiosity to desire, I could not have had the assurance to offer, scarce believing I, who was hardly taught to read, have any abilities to write.
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etc. And perhaps this feast had been long observed, and by different tribes of people, before it became preceptive with the Jews. However, let that be as it will, the custom very lucidly appears from the following passages of S. S., Exod. xxiii. 16,
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And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field. And its institution as a sacred rite is commanded in Levit. xxiii. 39:
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When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land ye shall keep a feast to the Lord.
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Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the Lord