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lean animals. The tithes are not regularly paid, and if at
all paid are of the inferior material. The priests, too, natu-
rally, cannot devote their time and energy to perform their
sacred duty. For they cannot chew the beefsteaks and
roasted mutton-chops of the lean old, crippled sacrifices.
They cannot live on the scanty tithes or insufficient stipends.
Yahweh, as usual with this incorrigible people, now threatens,
now holds out promises, and at times complain.
This discourse, or oracle, seems to have been delivered
by the Prophet Malakhi in about the beginning of the fourth
century before the Christian era, when the people of Israel
were also tired of Yahweh; and used to say: "The Table of
the Lord (Yahweh) is an abomination, and His meal is con-
temptible" (Mal. i. 12). "He who doeth evils is good in the
all paid are of the inferior material. The priests, too, natu-
rally, cannot devote their time and energy to perform their
sacred duty. For they cannot chew the beefsteaks and
roasted mutton-chops of the lean old, crippled sacrifices.
They cannot live on the scanty tithes or insufficient stipends.
Yahweh, as usual with this incorrigible people, now threatens,
now holds out promises, and at times complain.
This discourse, or oracle, seems to have been delivered
by the Prophet Malakhi in about the beginning of the fourth
century before the Christian era, when the people of Israel
were also tired of Yahweh; and used to say: "The Table of
the Lord (Yahweh) is an abomination, and His meal is con-
temptible" (Mal. i. 12). "He who doeth evils is good in the