 | Avery Allyn - Freemasonry - 1853 - 370 pages
...adopted among Masons : and we read in the book of Ruth concerning their mode and manner of redeeming, and changing ' for to confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor, and this was testimony in Israel.' This then, therefore, we do in confirmation of a token,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn." We also read in another place, " Now this was the manner in former time in Israel,...shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel." Ruth,iv. 7. And, lastly, with respect to presumptive evidence, there is one celebrated... | |
 | Francis Starr - 1854 - 240 pages
...such a singular request, till one day, reading in the 4th chapter of Ruth, at the 7th verse, I read, " Now this was the manner in former time in Israel,...shoe and gave it to his neighbour ; and this was a testimony in Israel ;" a circumstance I was in ignorance of before. But independently of that, I found... | |
 | George Bush - 1854 - 694 pages
...cases of ^reat donations, when not made on a sick-bed, but by persons in health.—MICHAELIS. Ver. 7. Now this was the manner in former time in Israel,...things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighboar; and this was a testimony in Israel. 8. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for... | |
 | Peter von Bohlen - 1855 - 388 pages
...translation to Ruth iv. 7, where the ancient Hebrew manner of making a bargain sure is thus described : — " This was the manner in former time, in Israel, concerning...shoe, and gave it to his neighbour ; and this was a testimony to Israel ! " The purchase effected by Boaz was made sure by drawing off the shoe before... | |
 | 1855 - 870 pages
...myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself: for I cannot redeem it. NOVJ this was the manner in former time in Israel, concerning redeeming, and concerning changes—'Thine they were, and thon gavest them me'—for to confirm all things, a man plucked off... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 598 pages
...found in many languages ; the legal use of the shoe is of remote antiquity. We read in Ruth, iv. 7. : " Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning...shoe, and gave it to his neighbour ; and this was a testimony in Israel." So, likewise, in Psalms, Ix. 8. : " Over Edom will I cast out my shoe," — God's... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it. 7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning...things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor: and this was a testimony in Israel. 8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 569 pages
...in the book of Ruth m : " now " this was the manner in former time in Ifrael, concerning re" deeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things : " a man plucked off his fhoe, and gave it to his neighbour ; and " this was a teftimony in Ifrael." Among the antient Goths... | |
 | Edward J. Young - Religion - 1984 - 440 pages
...4:7 mention is made of the custom of taking off a shoe to symbolize the renunciation of one's claims. 'Now this was the manner in former time in Israel...shoe, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was a testimony in Israel.' Obviously,, this custom no longer applied when the book was written. It did apply,... | |
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Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel. 
