Quotes about Tradition

The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

Then David took hold of his own clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.

And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.