Excerpt from Passages of the Bible, Chosen for Their Literary Beauty and Interest Hebrew text of the Old Testament, my explana tions are necessarily given at second hand, since I know no Hebrew. But by consulting standard commentaries and some of the more recent ver sions, especially the English Revised Version, I have endeavoured to ascertain the correct mean ing of the original and to convey it briefly to the reader. I have also put together a few parallels from other literatures, and have illustrated some Hebrew legends and customs from the folk-lore of other peoples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.