Note 795 — Chapter VIII · THE HEBREW SABBATH
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The march of the Israelitish host around Jericho on seven successive days, one of which must have been the Sabbath, if that institution as a weekly rest day was then known to them, would have been a profanation of the Sabbath according to later ideas. See Joshua, vi, 4, 14-15; compare Tertullian, Adversus Judæos, 4. But this account may contain a reminiscence of a period of Hebrew history when the week, either lunar or periodic, had not become established in Israel.