Whence came their peculiar feast,
in which a bone of the sacrifice may not be broken,
and all that is prepared must be eaten or burned
before the next morning sun?
Who taught them to keep and venerate a sacred ark?
Whence came the deep and extensive impression
that the hollow of the thigh of no animal may be eaten?
Let the infidel inform how these came
by the rite of circumcision, and some of them
an idea of Jubilee.
Whence were some of them taught, in deep mourning,
to lay their hand on their mouth and their mouths in the dust?