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House of the Sanctuary ; and they offer burnt- chap. 
offerings, both on the Passover and on other '- y < ^ 
festivals, on the altar which was built on IVIount 
Gerizim, of those stones which the Children of 
Israel set up, after they had passed over Jordan. 
They pretend that they are descended from the 
tribe of Ephraim; and have among iliem the 
Sepulchre of Joseph the Just, the son of our father 
Jacob, who rests in peace, according to that 
saying', ' The bones also of Joseph, ivhich the 
Children of Israel brought up luith them out of Egypt, 
buried they in Shechem." — Maundrell, the only 
English writer who has visited Napolose, is 
more explicit than the earlier Christian pil- 
grims, concerning this place ; but he was prin- 
cipally occupied in discussions with a Samaritan 
priest, concerning the difference between their 
text and the Hebrew, and in identifying the two 
mountains, Ebal and Gerizim, between which 
the city stands. He notices, however, the 
Tomb of Joseph; still bearing its name, unaltered, 
and venerated even by the Moslems, who have 
built a small temple over it^ Its authenticity is 
(5) Josh.xx'iv. 32. 
(6) " We saw on our ri^ht hand, just without the city, a small 
mos([ue, said to have been built over the sepulchre purchased by Jacob 
of JEJwiwior the father oi Shechem. (Ccm, xxxiii. 1.9.) It goes by the 
uanie of Joseph's Sepulchre, his bones having been here interr'd, 
after their transportation out of Egypt. {Josh. xxiv. 32.)" Joiirn. 
from Aleppo to Jems. p. 62. Oj-f. 1721. 
