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I here quote the parallel readings :— 
Leviticus, Chapter xxiii., Verse 40. 
Nehemiah, 
Chapter viii., 
Ver 
English Authorised English Revised | Translation of English Authorised 
Ver | Version. | Italian Version. ^ Version. 
| 
* And ye shall * And ye shall | GU s the are * And that they 
take you on the | take you on the | day should publish and 
first day the boughs | first asd es fruit | vourelves of "fe proclaim in all thei 
of goodly trees, of goodly trees, | fruit itron | eities and in Jeru- 
branches of palm | branches of pal trees, dae of | salem, saying, Go 
trees, and the | trees, and boughs | palms, boughs fo unto the 
boughs of thick | of thick trees, and | myrtles and wil- | mount and fetch 
trees, and willows | eg o lows of the ive olive branches, and 
of the brook, and | brook, and yeshall | and rejoice in the | pine branches, ard 
ye shall rejoice | rejoice before the | Lord your God for | myrtle branches, 
before the Lord | Lord your God | seven days | and palm branches 
your God seven | seven days. | and branches of 
days.’ | thick trees, to 
| make booths as is 
| written." 
* It has ever been held that the fruit must be as unblemished as 
possible, pa rupes enormously in proportion to the entire perfection 
of the speci 
een credibly i 
10s. 
fetched of lin: sec as mash as 31 
for as much as 1/. each. 
“It is absolutely necessary that the calyx ey be present and 
" It i is said that through Jews becoming 
and for * Citr 
ring in 
wish 
ce belies 
"E merce 
peace the citrons are 
s, implying 
in Poland) has himself piibkel the citron from its ud in the Holy 
Land. 
informed that a 
d pay to plant further, as „prices are even now 
attention of E: enterprise, in Cyprus 
single fruit has 
ld 
Even in 1893 some were so! 
of the Feast the 
d less orthodox in 
for 
e Law' is likely to 
pecially, is called to this, 
always that the Jewish renra must be most 
strictly complied with to make such an undertaking successful. 
collected fi in Trieste, they are o 
ones and twos. 
The o 
rchants arriving here from the East of Europe to 
often men of considerable wealth, but their 
Fires large 
nly seen aot the streets occasionally in 
object of this self effacement is to co 
nvey the 
impression that there are very few of them in the town competing, and 
revent a rise 
in 
prices. 
* Although the only dialect they are acquainted ie as a rule, is 
Yiddish, thetr reputation for success and sharpne 
ss is remar 
e, but as 
the trade is almost entirely in the hands of the Jews, ae is St much 
Christian complaint against them 
