Targums Onkelos / Pseudo-Jonathan / Jerusalem Fragments — Etheridge — Section 74
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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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vow of a Nazarite: he was beautiful in countenance, and his hair waved in graceful locks. My son, I said, what moves thee to destroy thy hair? He replied, 1 am a shepherd to my father in my native place. I went to draw water from the fountain, and looking at the reflec- tion of my own face in the water, vanity seized me, and became a temptation to hinder my future happiness. Wretch, said I then to myself, art thou proud of that which is not thine, and which must soon be dust and ashes? So now I swear tha: I go not hence until these locks be cut off. And 1 arose, and kissed his head, …
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- 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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- eng
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