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Yaghar sahdutha by Laban in his Aramaic language, which
means "a heap of witness." But the proper noun they gave
to the erected stone was Mispa (Gen. xxxi. 45-55), which I
prefer to write in its exact Arabic form, Mispha, and this
I do for the benefit of my Muslim readers.
Now this Mispha became later on the most important
place of worship, and a center of the national assemblies in
the history of the people of Israel. It was here that Naphthah
- a Jewish hero - made a vow "before the Lord," and after
beating the Ammonites, he is supposed to have offered his
only daughter as a burnt offering (Judges xi). It was at
Mispha that four hundred thousand swordsmen from the
Yaghar sahdutha by Laban in his Aramaic language, which
means "a heap of witness." But the proper noun they gave
to the erected stone was Mispa (Gen. xxxi. 45-55), which I
prefer to write in its exact Arabic form, Mispha, and this
I do for the benefit of my Muslim readers.
Now this Mispha became later on the most important
place of worship, and a center of the national assemblies in
the history of the people of Israel. It was here that Naphthah
- a Jewish hero - made a vow "before the Lord," and after
beating the Ammonites, he is supposed to have offered his
only daughter as a burnt offering (Judges xi). It was at
Mispha that four hundred thousand swordsmen from the