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Excerpt from The Book of Amos: With Notes Common, again, to both was the religious practice of the day. We hear of pilgrimages to famous shrines, and of solemn assemblies 1n the local sanctuaries, where music and singing accompanied the acts of worship. The sacrifices included most of those mentioned in the later law books, the burnt offering, the meal offering, the free-will offering, the thanksgiving offering (v. 21 - 23, iv. The new moons and sabbaths were observed by the cessation of labour (viii. Amos knows of a law prohibiting the use of leaven with sacrifices (iv. 5, cf. Ex. Xxiii. And distinguishing between clean and unclean foods (vii. 17, cf. Hos. Ix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.