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Arca cyrographica
Arca cyrographica, a common chest with three locks and keys, kept by certain Christians and Jews, where in all the contracts, mortgages, and obligations belonging to the Jews were preserved to prevent fraud, by
Sephardic
Of pertaining to or designating the Jews the Sephardim also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition
Obligation
Obligation, an act which binds a person to some performance; also a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for paying of money at a certain time, or for the performance of a covenant, etc.;...
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Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists. The...
Religion
worship a manifestation of piety as ethical religions monotheistic religions natural religion revealed religion the religion of the Jews the religion of idol worshipers
Shekel
An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock
Sabbath
rest one day in seven appointed for rest or worship the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed
Sadducee
One of a sect among the ancient Jews who denied the resurrection a future state and the existence of angels
Sanhedrin
the great council of the Jews which consisted of seventy members to whom the high priest was added It had jurisdiction of religious matters
Schatchen
A person whose business is marriage brokage a marriage broker esp among certain Jews
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