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them an the ground of peace.' 4 R. 55, obv. 211 ; nil
+'iti?~' i1Gu ona mn!i'i,-i i nirdnb4f,' ,,,,a dnri iiiiniiu
1211df ilfib am iulrni; 'whereby his gad accepts the
lifting np of his hands and taker pleasure in his freewill
offerings, whereby the angry gods turn themselves
propitiously towards him.' 4 R. 577 (ah612 ir nap.
ionum in inapiindn bunnu lipiliiu linln~o) : 'the food
and the fatness which is rpmd out before thy face, "lay
it take awav mine evil." The foliowinc remarkable
passage, from a hymn to Marduk, stands unfortunately
alone (K. 146; cp 2 R. 1813: ornElu muftoiibv inn
ni* rim$ fuImC Yrnn b$ mnii; limmoiEi). 'May the
man oineued . " with fever be ~urified Like shinine lnerai
through a gracious peace offering.' In contracts the
expression oinp iap!iri, ,redemption ox' (Ned. 13Zzg
2133) often occurs; cp with this Lev. 43 (nm" 72).
The iden of atonement in the OT has found its classical
exorerrion in the hnbbardh of P isee MERCY-SLAT. 6 21.
'It is a remarkable circumstance that
g.
gaCTificB, etC, hitherto no allthentic evidence for the
burnine of human sacrifices has been
met with in any of the cuneiform inscriptions. It
would be unwise, however, to base nluch upon the
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