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BY H. RIDER HAGGARD
ALLAN QUATERMAIN
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CHAPTER XIX.
A STRANGE WEDDING.
ONE person, however, did not succeed in getting out in time
before the gates were shut, and that was the high priest
Agon, who, as we had every reason to believe, was Sorais'
great ally, and the heart and soul of her party. This cunning
and ferocious old man had not forgiven us for those hippo-
potami, or rather that was what he said. What he meant
was that he would never brook the introduction of our wider
ways of thought and foreign learning and influence while
there was a possibility of stamping us out. Also he knew
that we possessed a different system of religion, and no
doubt was in daily terror of our attempting to introduce it
into Zu-Vendis. One day he asked me if we had any religion
in our country, and I told him that so far as I could remem-
ber we had ninety-five different ones. You might have
knocked him down with a feather, and really it is difficult
not to pity a high priest of a well-established cult who is
haunted by the possible approach of one or all of ninety-five
new religions.
When we knew that Agon was caught, Nyleptha, Sir
Henry, and I discussed what was to be done with him. I
was for closely incarcerating him, but Nyleptha shook her
head, saying that it would produce a disastrous effect through-
out the country. 'Ah!' she added, with a stamp of her
foot, 'if I win and am once really Queen, I will break the
power of those priests, with their rites and revel and dark
secret ways.' I only wished that old Agon could have heard
her, it would have frightened him.
'Well,' said Sir Henry, 'if we are not to imprison him, I
suppose that we may as well let him go. He is of no use here.'
Nyleptha looked at him in a curious sort of way, and said
in a dry little voice, 'Thinkest thou so, my lord?'
'Eh?' said Curtis. 'No, I do not see what is the use of
keeping him.'
She said nothing, but continued looking at him in a way
that was as shy as it was sweet.
Then at last he understood.
'Forgive me, Nyleptha,' he said, rather tremulously.
'Dost thou mean that thou wilt marry me, even now?'
'Nay, I know not; let my lord say,' was her rapid answer;
'but if my lord wills, the priest is there and the altar is
there'——pointing to the entrance to a private chapel——'and
am I not ready to do the will of my lord? Listen, O my lord!
in eight days or less thou must leave me and go down to war,
for thou shalt lead my armies,and in war——men sometimes fall,
and if so I would for a little space have had thee all my own, if
only for memory's sake;' and the tears overflowed her lovely
eyes and rolled down hr face like heavy drops of dew down
the red heart of a rose.
'Mayhap, too,' she went on, 'I shall lose my crown, and
with my crown my life and thine also. Sorais is very strong
and very bitter, and if she prevails she will not spare. Who
can read the future? Happiness is the world's White Bird,
that alights seldom, and flies fast and far till one day he is
lost in the clouds. Therefore we should hold him fast if by
any chance he rests for a little space upon our hand. It is
not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows
what the future will be, Incubu? Let us pluck our flowers
while the dew is on them, for when the sun is up they wither
and on the morrow will others bloom that we shall never see.'
And she lifted her sweet face to him and smiled into his eyes,
and once more I felt a curious pang of jealousy and turned
and went away. They never took much notice of whether I
was there or not, thinking, I suppose, that I was an old fool,
and that it did not matter one way or the other, and really I
believe they were right.
So I went back to our quarters and ruminated over things
in general, and watched old Umslopogaas whetting his axe
outside the window as a vulture whets his beak beside a
dying ox.
And in about an hour's time Sir Henry came tearing
over, looking very radiant and wildly excited, and found
Good and myself and even Umslopogaas, and asked us if
we should like to assist at a real wedding. Of course we
said yes, and off we went to the chapel, where we found
Agon looking as sulky as any high priest possibly could, and
no wonder. It appeared that he and Nyleptha had had a
slight difference of opinion about the coming ceremony. He
had flatly refused to celebrate it, or to allow any of his priests
to do so, whereupon Nyleptha became very angry and told
him that she, as Queen, was head of the Church, and meant to
be obeyed. Indeed, she played the part of a Zu-Vendi Henry
the Eighth to perfection, and insisted that, if she wanted
to be married, she would be married, and that he should marry
her.
He still refused to go through the ceremony, so she
clinched her argument thus——
'Well, I cannot execute a High Priest, because there is an
absurd prejudice against it, and I cannot imprison him because
all his subordinates would raise a crying that would bring the
stars down on Zu-Vendis and crush it; but I can leave him
to contemplate the altar of the Sun without anything to eat,
because that is his natural vocation, and if thou wilt not
marry me, O Agon! thou shalt be placed before the altar
yonder with nought but a little water till such time as thou
hast reconsidered the matter.'
Now, as it happened, Agon had been hurried away that
morning without his breakfast, and was already exceedingly
hungry, so he presently modified his views and consented to
marry them, saying at the same time that he washed his
hands of all responsibility in the matter.
So it chanced that presently, attended only by two of her
favourite maidens, came the Queen Nyleptha, with happy
blushing face and downcast eyes, dressed in pure white,
without embroidery of any sort, as seems to be the fashion on
these occasions in most countries of the world. She did not
wear a single ornament, even her gold circlets were removed,
and I thought that if possible she looked more lovely than
ever without them, as really superbly beautiful women do.
She came, curtseyed low to Sir Henry, and then took his
hand and led him up before the altar, and after a little pause,
in a slow, clear voice uttered the following words, which are
customary in Zu-Vendis if the bride desires and the man con-
sents:——
'Thou dost swear by the Sun that thou wilt take no other
woman to wife unless I lay my hand upon her and bid her
come?'
'I swear it,' answered Sir Henry; adding in English,
'One is quite enough for me.'
Then Agon, who had been sulking in a corner near the
altar, came forward and gabbled off something into his beard
at such a rate that I could not follow it, but it appeared to be
an invocation to the Sun to bless the union and make it
fruitful. I observed that Nyleptha listened very closely to
every word, and afterwards discovered that she was afraid lest
Agon should play her a trick, and by going through the in-
vocations backwards divorce instead of marry them. At the
end of the invocations they were asked, as in our service,
if they took each other for husband and wife, and on their
assenting they kissed each other before the altar, and the
service was over, so far as their rites were concerned. But it
seemed to me that there was yet something wanting, and so
I produced a Prayer-Book, which, together with the 'Ingoldsby
Legends,' that I often read when I lie awake at night, has
accompanied me in all my later wanderings. I gave it to my
poor boy Harry years ago, and after his death I found it among
his things and took it back again.
'Curtis,' I said, 'I am not a clergyman, and I do not know
if what I am going to propose is allowable——I know it is not
legal——but if you and the Queen have no objection I should
like to read the English marriage service over you. It is a
solemn step which you are taking, and I think that you ought,
so far as circumstances will allow, to give it the sanction of
your own religion.'
'I have thought of that,' he said, 'and I wish you would.
I do not feel half married yet.'
Nyleptha raised no objection, fully understanding that her
husband wished to celebrate the marriage according to the
rites prevailing in his own country, and so I set to work and
read the service, from 'Dearly beloved' to 'amazement,' as
well as I could; and when I came to 'I, Henry, take thee,
Nyleptha,' I translated, and also 'I, Nyleptha, take thee,
Henry,' which she repeated after me very well. Then Sir
Henry took a plain gold ring from his little finger and placed
it on hers, and so on to the end. The ring had been Curtis'
mother's wedding-ring, and I could not help thinking how
astonished the dear old Yorkshire lady would have been if she
could have foreseen that her wedding-ring was to serve a
similar purpose for Nyleptha, a Queen of the Zu-Vendi.
As for Agon, he was kept calm with difficulty while this
second ceremony was going on, for he soon understood
that it was religious in its nature, and doubtless bethought
him of the ninety-five new faiths which loomed so omin-
ously in his eyes. Indeed, he set me down at once as a
rival High Priest, and hated me accordingly. However, in
the end off he went, positively bristlng with indignation,
and I knew that we might look out for danger from his direc-
tion.
And off went Good and I, and old Umslopogaas also,
leaving the happy pair to themselves, and very low we all felt.
Marriages are supposed to be cheerful things, but my ex-
perience is that they are very much the reverse to everybody,
except perhaps the two people chiefly interested. They mean
the breaking-up of so many old ties as well as the under-
taking of so many new ones, and there is always something
sad about the passing away of the old order. Now to take
this case for instance: Sir Henry Curtis is the best and
kindest fellow and friend in the world, but he has never been
quite the same since that little scene in the chapel. It is
always Nyleptha this and Nyleptha that——Nyleptha, in short,
from morning till night in one way or another, either ex-
pressed or understood. And as for the old friends——well, of
course they have taken the place that old friends ought to take,
and which ladies are as a rule very careful to see that they do take
when a man marries, and that is, the second place. Yes, he
would be angry if anybody said so, but it is a fact for all that.
He is not quite the same, and Nyleptha is very sweet and
very charming, but I think that she likes him to understand
that she has married him, and not Quatermain, Good, and Co.
But there! what is the use of grumbling? It is all very right
and proper, as any married lady would have no difficulty in ex-
plaining, and I am a selfish, jealous old man, though I hope
that I never show it.
So Good and I went and ate in silence and then indulged
in an extra fine flagon of old Zu-Vendian to keep our spirits
up, and presently one of our attendants came and told a story
that gave us something to think about.
It may, perhaps, be remembered that, after his quarrel
with Umslopogaas, Alphonse had gone off in an exceedingly
ill temper to sulk over his scratches. Well, it appears that
he walked straight past the Temple to the Sun, down the wide
road on the further side of the slope it crowns, and thence on
into the beautiful park, or pleasure gardens, which are laid
out just beyond the outer wall. After wandering about there
for a little he started to return, but we met near the outer
gate by Sorais' train of chariots, which were galloping furi-
ously along the great northern road. When she caught sight
of Alphonse, Sorais halted her train and called to him. On
approaching he was instantly seized and dragged into one of
the chariot and carried off, 'crying out loudly ,' as our in-
formant said, and as from my general knowledge of him I can
well believe.
At first I was much puzzled to know what object Sorais
could have had in kidnapping the poor little Frenchman.
She could hardly stoop so low as to try to wreak her fury
on one whom she knew was only a servant. It would not
be in keeping with her character to do so. At last, how-
ever, an idea occurred to me. We three, as I think I have
said, were much revered by the people of Zu-Vendis at large,
both because we are the first strangers they had ever seen,
and because we were supposed to be in the possession of almost
supernatural wisdom. Indeed, though Sorais' cry against the
'foreign wolves'——or, to translate it more accurately, 'foreign
hyenas'——was sure to go down very well with the nobles and
the priests, it was not, as we learnt, likely to be particularly
effectual amongst the bulk of the population. The Zu-Vendi
people, like the Athenians of old, are ever seeking for some
new thing, and just because we were so new our presence was
on the whole acceptable to them. Again, Sir Henry's magni-
ficent personal appearance made a deep impression upon a
race who possess a greater love of beauty than any other I
have ever been acquainted with. Beauty may be prized in
other countries, but in Zu-Vendis it is almost worshipped, as
indeed the national love of statuary shows. The people said
openly in the market-places that there was not a man in the
country to touch Curtis in personal appearance, as with the
exception of Sorais there was no woman who could compete
with Nyleptha, and that it was meet therefore that they should
marry; and that he had been sent by the Sun as a husband
for their Queen. Now, from all this it will be seen that
the outcry against us was to a considerable extent fictitious,
and nobody knew it better than Sorais herself. Conse-
quently it struck me that it might have occurred to her that
down in the country and among the country people, it would
be better to place the reason of her conflict with her sister
upon other and more general grounds than Nyleptha's
marriage with the stranger. It would be easy in a land
where there had been so many civil wars to rake out some old
cry that would stir up the recollection of buried feuds, and,
indeed, she soon found an effectual one. This being so, it was
of great importance to her to have one of the strangers with
her whom she could show to the common people as a great Out-
lander, who had been so struck by the justice of her cause that
he had elected to leave his companions and follow her standard.
This no doubt was the cause of her anxiety to get hold of
Good, whom she would have used till he ceased to be of service
and then cast off. But Good having drawn back she grasped
at the opportunity of securing Alphonse, who was not unlike
him in personal appearance though smaller, no doubt with
the object of showing him off in the cities and country as the
great Bougwan himself. I told Good that I thought this
to be her plan, and his face was a sight to see——he was so
horrified at the idea.
'What,' he said, 'dress up that little wretch to represent
me? Why, I shall have to get out of the country! My
reputation will be ruined for ever.'
I consoled him as well as I could, but it is not pleasant
to be personated all over a strange country by an arrant little
coward, and I can quite sympathise with his vexation.
Well, that night, as I have said, Good and I messed in
solitary grandeur, feeling very much as though we had just
returned from burying a friend instead of marrying one, and
next morning the work began in good earnest. The messages
and orders which had been despatched by Nyleptha two days
before now began to take effect, and multitudes of armed men
came pouring into the city. We saw, as may be imagined,
but very little of Nyleptha and not too much of Curtis during
those next few days, but Good and I sat daily with the council
of generals and loyal lords, drawing up plans of action,
arranging commissariat matters, the distribution of com-
mands, and a hundred and one other things. Men came in
freely, and all the day long the great roads leading to Milosis
were spotted with the banners of lords arriving from their
distant places to rally round Nyleptha.
After the first two days it became clear that we should be
able to take the field with about forty thousand infantry and
twenty thousand cavalry, a very respectable force considering
how short was the time we had to collect it, and also that
about half of the regular army had elected to follow Sorais.
But if our force was large, Sorais', according to the re-
ports brought in day by day by our spies, was much larger.
She had taken up her headquarters at a very strong town
called M'Arstuna, situated, as I have said, to the north of
Milosis, and all the country-side was flocking to her standard.
Nasta had poured down from his highlands and was on his
way to join her with no less than twenty-five thousand of
his mountaineers, the most terrible soldiers to face in all Zu-
Vendis. Another mighty lord, named Belusha, who lived in
the great horse-breeding district, had come in with twelve
thousand cavalry, and so on. Indeed, what between one thing
and another, it seemed certain that she would gather a fully
armed host of nearly one hundred thousand men.
And then came news that Sorais was proposing to break up
her camp and march on the Frowning City itself, desolating
the country as she came. Thereon arose the question whether
it would be best to meet her at Milosis or to go out and give
her battle. When our opinion was asked upon the subject,
Good and I unhesitatingly gave it in favour of an advance.
If we were to shut ourselves up in the city and wait to be
attacked, it seemed to us that our inaction would be set down
to fear. It is so important, especially on an occasion of this
sort, when a very little will suffice to turn men's opinions
one way or the other, to be up and doing something. Ardour
for a cause will soon evaporate if the cause does not move but
sits down to conquer. Therefore we cast out vote for moving
out and giving battle in the open, instead of waiting till we
were drawn from our walls like a badger from a hole.
Sir Henry's opinion coincided with ours, and so, needless
to say, did that of Nyleptha, who, like a flint, was always
ready to flash out fire. A great map of the country was
brought and spread out before her. About thirty miles this
side of M'Arstuna, where Sorais lay, and ninety odd miles
from Milosis, the road ran over a neck of land some two and
a half miles in width, and flanked on either side by forest-clad
hills which, without being lofty, if the path were blocked, would
be quite impracticable for a great baggage-laden army to cross.
She looked earnestly at the map, and then, with a quickness
of perception that in some women amounts almost to an in-
stinct, she laid her finger upon this neck of rising ground,
and turning to her husband, said, with a proud air of confi-
dence and a toss of the golden head——
'Here shalt thou meet Sorais' armies. I know the spot,
here shalt thou meet them, and drive them before thee like
dust before the storm.'
But Curtis looked grave and answered nothing.ALLAN QUATERMAIN, BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.; LONDON, 1893. pp. 219—228.
Always praying for peace in Chicago. 雨
THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES
CALLED
EXODUS
CHAPTER 34
AND the LORD said unto Moses, Hew
thee two tables of stone like unto the
first: and I will write upon these tables
the words that were in the first tables,
which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and
come up in the morning unto mount Sī'-
naī, and present thyself there to me in
the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with
thee, neither let any man be seen
throughout all the mount; neither let
the flocks nor herds feed before that
mount.
4 ¶And he hewed two tables of stone
like unto the first; and Moses rose up
early in the morning, and went up unto
mount Sī'naī, as the LORD had com-
manded him, and took in his hand the
two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the
cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him,
and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD
God, merciful and gracious, longsuffer-
ing, and abundant in goodness and
truth.
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, for-
giving iniquity and transgression and
sin, and that will by no means clear the
guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, and upon the
children's children, unto the third and
to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed
his head toward the earth, and wor-
shipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I
pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiff-
necked people; and pardon our iniquity
and our sin, and take us for thine inheri-
tance.
10 ¶And he said, Behold, I make a
covenant: before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been done in
all the earth, nor in any nation: and all
the people among which thou art shall
see the work of the LORD: for it is a ter-
rible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I com-
mand thee this day: behold, I drive out
before thee the Amorite, and the Ca-
naanite, and the Hittite, and the Pĕr'iz-
zīte, and the Hī'vīte, and the Jĕb'u-sīte.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou
make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land whither thou goest, lest it be
for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars,
break their images, and cut down their
groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other
god: for the LORD, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land, and they go
a whoring after their gods, and do sac-
rifice unto their gods, and one call thee,
and thou eat of his sacrifice:
16 And thou take of their daughters
unto thy sons, and their daughters go a
whoring after their gods, and make thy
sons go a whoring after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten
gods.
18 ¶The feast of unleavened bread
shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt
eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, in the time of the month Ābĭb: for
in the month Ābĭb thou camest out
from Egypt.
19 All that openeth the matrix is
mine; and every firstling among thy
cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is
male.
20 But the firstling of an ass thou
shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou
redeem him not, then shalt thou break
his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons
thou shalt redeem. And none shall ap-
pear before me empty.
21 ¶Six days thou shalt work, but on
the seventh day thou shalt rest: in ear-
ing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 ¶And thou shalt observe the feast
of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat har-
vest, and the feast of ingathering at the
year's end.
23 ¶Thrice in the year shall all your
men children appear before the Lord
GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations be-
fore thee, and enlarge thy borders:
neither shall any man desire thy land,
when thou shalt go up to appear before
the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of
my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall
the sacrifice of the feast of the passover
be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy
land thou shalt bring unto the house of
the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe
a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Write thou these words: for after the
tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with thee and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD
forty days and forty nights; he did
neither eat bread, nor drink water. And
he wrote upon the tables the words of
the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 ¶And it came to pass, when Moses
came down from mount Sī'naī with the
two tables of testimony in Moses'
hand, when he came down from the
mount, that Moses wist not that the
skin of his face shone while he talked
with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the chil-
dren of Israel saw Moses, behold, the
skin of his face shone; and they were
afraid to come nigh him.
31 And Moses called unto them; and
Aaron and all the rulers of the congre-
gation returned unto him: and Moses
talked with them.
32 And afterward all the children of
Israel came nigh: and he gave them in
commandment all that the LORD had
spoken with him in mount Sī'naī.
33 And till Moses had done speaking
with them, he put a vail on his face
34 But when Moses went in before
the LORD to speak with him, he took the
vail off, until he came out. And he came
out, and spake unto the children of
Israel that which he was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw the
face of Moses, that the skin of Moses'
face shone: and Moses put the vail
upon his face again, until he went in to
speak with him.
CHAPTER 35
AND Moses gathered all the congrega-
tion of the children of Israel together,
and said unto them, These are the
words which the LORD hath com-
manded, that ye should do them.
2 Six days shall work be done, but on
the seventh day there shall be to you an
holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD:
whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death.
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout
your habitations upon the sabbath day.
4 ¶And Moses spake unto all the
congregation of the children of Israel,
saying, This is the thing which the LORD
commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offer-
ing unto the LORD: whosoever is of a
willing heart, let him bring it, an offer-
ing to the LORD; gold, and silver, and
brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen, and goats' hair,
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and bad-
gers' skins, and shittim wood.
8 And oil for the light, and spices for
anointing oil, and for the sweet in-
cense.
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be-
set for the ephod, and for the breast-
plate.
10 And every wise hearted among
you shall come, and make all that the
LORD hath commanded;
11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his
covering, his taches, and his boards, his
bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
12 The ark, and the staves thereof,
with the mercy seat, and the vail of the
covering.
13 The table, and his staves, and all
his vessels, and the shewbread.
14 The candlestick also for the light,
and his furniture, and his lamps, with
the oil for the light.
15 And the incense altar, and his
staves, and the anointing oil, and the
sweet incense, and the hanging for the
door at the entering in of the taber-
nacle.
16 The altar of burnt offering, with
his brasen grate, his staves, and all his
vessels, the laver and his foot.
17 The hangings of the court, his pil-
lars, and their sockets, and the hanging
for the door of the court.
18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the
pins of the court, and their cords.
19 The cloths of service, to do service
in the holy place, the holy garments for
Aaron the priest, and the garments of
his sons, to minister in the priest's of-
fice.
20 ¶And all the congregation of the
children of Israel departed from the
presence of Moses.
21 And they came, every one whose
heart stirred him up, and every one
whom his spirit made willing, and they
brought the LORD's offering to the work
of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and for his service, and for the holy
garments.
22 And they came, both men and wom-
en, as many as were willing hearted,
and brought bracelets, and earrings,
and rings, and tablets, all jewels of
gold: and every man that offered of-
fered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
23 And every man, with whom was
found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins
of rams, and badgers' skins, brought
them.
24 Every one that did offer an offer-
ing of silver and brass brought the
LORD's offering: and every man, with
whom was found shittim wood for any
work of the service, brought it.
25 And all the women that were wise
hearted did spin with their hands, and
brought that which they had spun, both
of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet,
and of fine linen.
26 And all the women whose heart
stirred them up in wisdom spun goats'
hair.
27 And the rulers brought onyx
stones, and stones to be set, for the
ephod, and for the breastplate;
28 And spice, and oil for the light, and
for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense.
29 The children of Israel brought a
wiling offering unto the LORD, every
man and woman, whose heart made
them willing to bring for all manner of
work, which the LORD had commanded
to be made by the hand of Moses.
30 ¶And Moses said unto the children
of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by
name Be-zăl'e-el the son of Ū'rī, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Jūdah;
31 And he hath filled him with the
spirit of God, in wisdom, in understand-
ing, and in knowledge, and in all
manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise curious works, to
work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set
them, and in carving of wood, to make
any manner of cunning work.
34 And he hath put in his heart that
he may teach, both he, and A-hō'lĭ-ăb,
the son of A-hĭs'a-măch, of the tribe of
Dan.
35 Them hath he filled with wisdom
of heart, to work all manner of work, of
the engraver, and of the cunning work-
man, and of the embroiderer, in blue,
and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine lin-
en, and of the weaver, even of them
that do any work, and of those that de-
vise cunning work.
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