Ritual
use
Hyssop is
a sacred plant used in Judaism. It appears a lot in the Hebrew Bible as Ezov.
In
Exodus 12:22 the Jews in Egypt are instructed to "Take a bunch of hyssop,
dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on
both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house
until morning." It is used by the priests in the Temple of Solomon for
purification rites of various kinds in Leviticus 14:4-7, 14:49-52, 19:6, 18.
Hyssop is also often used to fill the Catholic ceremonial Aspergillum, which
the priest dips into a bowl of holy water, and sprinkles onto the congregation
to bless them. However, researchers say that the Biblical accounts refer not to
the plant currently known as hyssop. It might actually be one of a number of
different herbs.
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So
those servants went out into the highways,
and gathered together all as many as they found,
both
bad
- and good:
and the wedding was furnished with
guests.
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Now
Moses
kept the flock of Jethro his father
in law,
the priest of Midian:
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And
Shem and Japheth took a garment,
and
went backward,
and
covered the nakedness
of their father;
and
their faces
were backward,
and they
saw not
their father's nakedness.
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and
he led the flock to
the backside of the desert,
and
came to the mountain of God,
even
to
Horeb.
**
And
the water was spent in the bottle,
and
she cast the child
under -
one of the shrubs.
**
And
the angel of the Lord appeared unto him - in a flame of fire
-
out of the midst of a bush:
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For
God doth
know
that in the day ye eat thereof,
then
your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing
good - and evil.
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and
he looked,
and,
behold,
the bush
burned with
fire,
and
the bush
was
not consumed.
***
And
he cried - and said,
Father
Abraham,
have
mercy on me,
and
send Lazarus,
that
he may dip the tip
of
his finger
in
water,
and
cool my tongue;
for
I am tormented in
this flame.
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And
a clean person shall take hyssop,
and
dip it in
the water,
and
sprinkle it
upon the tent,
and upon all
the vessels,
and
upon the persons that
were there,
and
upon him that touched a bone,
or
one slain,
or
one dead,
or a grave:
***
Then
on the third
day Abraham
lifted
up his eyes,
and
saw the place
afar off.
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And
the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on
the third
day,
***
Seven
days shall ye
- eat unleavened
bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven
out
of your houses:
for
whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day,
that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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and
on the seventh
day:
and
on the seventh day he
shall
purify
himself,
and
wash his clothes,
and
bathe himself in water,
and shall be clean at
even.
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But
Abraham said,
Son, remember
that thou
- in thy
lifetime
receivedst
thy good things,
and
likewise
Lazarus evil things: but now he is
comforted,
and
thou art tormented.
***
Ye made
- also - a
ditch between the two
walls for
the water of the old pool:
but
ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither
had
respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
And
in that day
did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping,
and
to mourning,
and
to - to girding with sackcloth:
And
behold joy
and gladness, slaying oxen,
and
killing sheep,
eating
flesh,
and
drinking wine:
let
us eat
and drink;
for
tomorrow we shall die.
***
And
beside all
this,
between
us and
you there is
a great gulf fixed:
so
- that they which would
pass from hence to you cannot;
neither
can they pass to us,
that
would come from
thence.
ISamuelyea
