Word: leviticus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ross Bible omits only one book (Song of Solomon), slashes many, notably in the Old Testament, where 27 chapters of Leviticus are cut down to little more than a page of fairly large type. Digester Ross deletes "indelicate episodes" like the incest of Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19, 29-38), modifies others, such as Nicodemus' reference, in conversation with Christ, to the womb...
...city's public library, Shakespeare and the Bible, the magistrate ruled the words were not obscene, dismissed the charge. The New York World-Telegram and Herald Tribune, carefully reporting to their readers that one of the words appeared in verse 7 of chapter 21 in the Book of Leviticus, ostentatiously refrained from mentioning them. The legal words: whore, whorehouse, hump...
...words, the ten first in the Bible, from his pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
...enemies:) Then Moses . . . said, Who is on the Lord's side? . .. -Exodus, 32: 25-26. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing. ... - Leviticus, 20: 17. I counsel thee to buy . . . white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there are nearly 100 such references to nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year...