Targums Onkelos / Pseudo-Jonathan / Jerusalem Fragments — Etheridge — Section 604
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Work: Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch
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Etheridge 1862 — retained OCR sections
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giveth you, and possess, and dwell in it, and you say, Let us appoint a king over us, like all the nations about me, you shall inquire for instruction before the Lord, and afterward appoint the king over you: but it will not be lawful to set over you a foreign man who is not of your brethren. Only let him not increase to him more than two horses, lest his princes ride upon them, and become proud, neglect the words of the law, and commit the sin of the captivity of Mizraim; for the Lord hath told you, By that way ye shall return no more. Neither shall he multiply to him wives above e…
- Source
- The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch : with the fragments of the Jerusalem Targum from the Chaldee
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
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- Existing approved legacy passages only; completeness against full historical work UNVERIFIED
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