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ing, and that after a claim, when there shall be a dispute as to land. [1]Ninth day period there is concerning a corpse, which shall have originated from the same cantrev as the person who shall have killed him. [2]Three ninth days there are for a chief huntsman. [3]Three ninth days there are as to the pregnancy of a woman. [4]Ninth day before August every swarm assumes the status of a mother-hive. [5]Ninth day period there is as to a warrant in the same gwlad, or as to a witness in the same gwlad. [6]Ninth day period there is for removing a house erected on another person's land without his consent. [7]Ninth day period there is for a wife to await her share of the chattels in her house when she shall separate from her husband. [8]Ninth day period doubled there is as to a plough when broken.

[9]Listen, thou judge, who givest the judgments. Let not the worth of a penny be more in thy sight than the worth of God. Do not judge wrongly for worth but judge justly for God.

[10]Small wonder if there be hesitation in a temporal court, since they shift as to their desire like the breeze of heaven. But whosoever loves certainty and security from falling, [for him] the right service of the Lord Jesus Christ is that which is the glorifying of

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