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Kebra Nagast

How the Army of Israel received orders " And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a for it " is woman, pollution. And thou shalt not go to a beast and thou shalt not lie with it so as to make thy seed go out upon it, And a that thou mayest not be polluted thereby. woman shall not go to a beast to lie with it, for it is pollution. And ye shall not pollute yourselves with any of these things, for with them the nations whom I have driven out before you have polluted themselves, and with them ye shall not pollute your bodies. " And sanctify ye your souls and your bodies to God, for He is the Holy One, and He loveth those who sanctify their souls and their bodies to Him. For He holy, and to be feared, and He is high, and merciful, and compassionate. And to Him praise is meet for is Amen." 43. HOW THE MEN OF THE ARMY OF ISRAEL RECEIVED ever and ever. [THEIR] ORDERS And the city rejoiced because the King had made his son King, and had appointed him King from his own territory to that of another. But the city sorrowed also because the King had commanded that they should " firstborn." And give their children who were called those who were on the right hand should sit in the same way as their fathers sat with King Solomon, even so should they sit at the right hand of his son David, the King of Ethiopia and those who were on the left hand should sit as their fathers sat with King Solomon, even so should they sit on the left hand of his son and their rank should David, the King of Ethiopia be like that of their fathers, and their names should ; ; be like those of their fathers. And each should be according to his ordinance, and each according to his greatness, and each according to his position of authority, and each according to his wages, and each according to his rank ; in this wise shall they be. As Solomon did to his nobles so shall David do to his nobles ; and as 61

E. A. W. Budge, The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), London 1922 — uploaded facsimile