Proctor, Richard A.: The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple (New York, 1883)

THE JEWISH FESTIVALS. 279

shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb
shalt thou offer at even.' Flour and oil also were
offered for the continual burnt offering. There was
also, precisely as in Pagan sacrifices, a libation—
' In the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine
to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.'

We have here manifestly those sacrifices to the
rising and setting sun which formed so charac-
teristic a feature of Sun worship.

Secondly, on the Sabbath-day, besides the con-
tinual burnt offering, there were offered ' two lambs
of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of
flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil and the
drink offering thereof.' This may be regarded as
partly derived from sacrifices originally offered to
Saturn ; partly from the worship of the moon, which
certainly was not unknown to the Jewish people.
In fact, it is noteworthy that in the Book of Job,
where no mention whatever is made of the Sab-
bath and Sabbath rest, the worship of the sun
and moon is referred to in terms implying that
it was common in Job's time, though Job himself
had risen superior to the superstitions of Sabaism.
(See p. 248, &c.) Moreover, it is evident from the
various reasons assigned for keeping the Sabbath
holy, that the observance had originally belonged
to another cult than that in which the lawgivers