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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 352 — THE MAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS SIX SLAVE-GIRLS.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. Sujúd, the ceremonial prostration, touching the ground with the forehead. So in the Old Testament “he bowed (or fell down) and worshipped” (Gen. xxiv., 26: Mat. ii., 11), of which our translation gives a wrong idea.

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