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plary family is to be found in the Book of Genesis (chaps.
xxv. - 1).
The famous prophecy, which may be considered as the
nucleus of this testament, is contained in the tenth verse of
the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis as follows: -
"The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
And the Lawgiver from between his feet,
Until the coming of Shiloh,
And to him belongeth the obedience of peoples."
This is the literal translation of the Hebrew text as much
as I can understand it. There are two words in the text
which are unique and occur nowhere else in the Old Testa-
ment. The first of these words is "Shiloh," and the other
xxv. - 1).
The famous prophecy, which may be considered as the
nucleus of this testament, is contained in the tenth verse of
the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis as follows: -
"The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
And the Lawgiver from between his feet,
Until the coming of Shiloh,
And to him belongeth the obedience of peoples."
This is the literal translation of the Hebrew text as much
as I can understand it. There are two words in the text
which are unique and occur nowhere else in the Old Testa-
ment. The first of these words is "Shiloh," and the other