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אשׁה אל אחתהּ

(Ish-shah el Achothah).


A WIFE TO HER SISTER:


BEING A


TREATISE IN WHICH THE QUESTION, SO LONG AND

WARMLY DISCUSSED, WHETHER MARRIAGE WITH

A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER IS PROHIBITED,

UNDER THE MOSAIC LAW, IS, IN A CLEAR

AND PRECISE MANNER, PLACED BEFORE

THE ENGLISH READER.



BY

JACOB M. HIRSCHFELDER,

LECTURER IN ORIENTAL LIITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO.




"And thou Shalt not take a wife io her sister to cause jealousy or enmity....in her life time."— Lev. xviii. 18.

TORONTO;

ROWSELL & HUTCHISON.


1878.