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{for food) ; and even stronger unto Moses : " then shalt thou 

 kill of thy herd and of thy flock which the Lord hath given 

 thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul 

 lusteth after ; '" and there is every reason to suppose that 

 the milk of the ewe was eaten very earl}^, as it has since 

 been in various parts of the world, and is even now by the 

 nomadic tribes of the East. " And He made him to suck 

 honey out of the rock, * * * butter of kine 



and milk of sheep with fat of lambs and bulls of the breed 

 of Bashan." 



Burlxhardt giv^es the following account of the manufac- 

 ture of butter from ewe's milk by the Syrian Arabs : " The 

 sheep are milked during the three spring months morning 

 and evening. They are sent out to pasture before sunrise, 

 while the lambs remain in or near camp. About ten o'clock 

 the herd returns and the lambs are allowed to satiate them- 

 selves, after whicli the ewes belonging to each tent are tied 

 to a long cord and milked one after another. The same 

 process occurs at sunset. From a hundred ewes the Arabs 

 expect in common years about eight pounds of butter per 

 day." 



But it is ijot really of the milk or meat producing quali- 

 ties of sheep, but of sheep as a wool bearing animal that I 

 purpose to speak. 



I have made these references to show that we have Divine 

 authority for putting a high estimate upon them as sheep ; 

 for even He shall set the sheep on his right hand. 



The art of weaving and dyeing was understood in early 

 days. Job says : " My days are. swifter than a weaver's 

 shuttle,'' and Joseph had a coat of many colors. 



