Mutters According To The Pentateuch

Tiiere is no raeution of mules in the Pentateuch. Such breeding was contrary io the law, bot the Assyrian sonlptures, ín later times, give figures of mules, and they are noticed in later books of the Bible (Ezekiel xxvii, 14; Zecbariah siv, 15). Nor are domestic f owls noticed, thongh known in Palestine in the time of Christ and represented on cyliniers of the Persian period. There is no mention of the citrón, which is native to Media, but which was only known in the Persian period in Palestine. Cotfcon (Esther i, 6) vid eilk (Ezekiel xvi, 10) are alike unnoticed in the Torah, but occur in later books, while flax, one of the most ancient materials in Aaia and in Europe, isso noticed. The oochineal insect ("crimson," Isaiah i, 18) may early have supplied a dye, for it is found on the leaves of the Syrian oak, and the purple dya from the galbanum or operculum of the shellfish used at Tyre may date back to any age, since it is found all along the Palestine coast, as are the yellow croous or saffron and the orange colored henna and kohel for blackeniug the eyes. The Hebrew8 do not appear to have nsed horses before the time of Solomon, bnt the Canaaivites had horses and chariots, which are noticed monumentally between 1700 and 1400 B. C. , as well as later. The Egyptians also had chariots long before the Exodus. Trading caravans, such as led Joseph to Egypt, are ïioticed in the fiftcenth century B. C. , in Palestine, and ships on the