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5o8 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

Advice to "am not able to speak unto my father and mother<br />

"that they leave me alone,' listen to what God<br />

"Almighty [p. 315] spake unto Moses concerning<br />

"the children of Israel, 'Keep them until they arrive<br />

"at their full age, and then enquire of them before<br />

"the house of God if they are able to keep them-<br />

"selves for God Almighty; and if they are not<br />

"able [to do so], let them marry and keep them-<br />

"selves for their husbands.' And, again, hearken<br />

"concerning the virgin daughters of Zelophehad,<br />

"how they married their kinsmen according to their<br />

"desire, and the portion of their inheritance of which<br />

"God had told Moses was given unto them before<br />

"they came into the land of [their] inheritance.'<br />

"And Moses told Joshua,'' the son of Nun, to give<br />

"them their portion of the land of inheritance,<br />

"and what he said maketh known that virgins who<br />

"have kept themselves [undefiled] shall inherit the<br />

"kingdom of heaven. And, again, hearken con-<br />

"cerning Jephthah's daughter, whose father allowed<br />

"her to go into the mountains to bewaiP her<br />

"virginity* and [the want of] a husband until he<br />

"sacrificed her to God Almighty, and he took her<br />

"as an offering of bulls and rams because he had<br />

"vowed her to his God when his soul was delivered<br />

"out of the fight with the enemy.<br />

' Numbers xxvi. 23', xxvii. 7; xxxvi. 11.<br />

^<br />

Joshua xvii. 3, 4.<br />

i Read -ThAli- nh'i'i' •<br />

^ Judges xi. 38.

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