1685 Rare Latin French Book Bible - The Book of Numbers & The Book of Deuteronomy by Le Maistre de Sacy.
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Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French translator.
Title: Les NOMBRES Traduit en François Avec l'explication du sens littéral & du sens spirituel tirée des Saints Péres, & des Auteurs Ecclesiastique. (BOUND WITH) Le DEUTÉRONOME Traduit en François Avec l'explication du sens littéral & du sens spirituel. Tirée des SS. Pères & des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques.
Language: Text in Latin and French.
Publisher: À Paris, Chez Guillaume Desprez, 1685. (Two complete books bound in one).
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 478-521 pages.
Binding: Good full calf leather binding (upper part of hinges partially cracked but still very tight and secure - as shown, overall slightly scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, erased name and corner staining to the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Include nice title vignettes.
Estimate: (USD 300 - USD 350)
The book: Original 1685 French Latin edition of The Book of Numbers -- the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history, but its final form is probably due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made some time in the early Persian period (5th century BCE). The name of the book comes from the two censuses taken of the Israelites. (BOUND WITH)
The Book of Deuteronomy (literally "second law" from Greek deuteros + nomos) is the fifth book of the Jewish Torah, where it is called Devarim (Heb. דברים), "the words [of Moses]".
Chapters 1–30 of the book consist of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land. The first sermon recounts the forty years of wilderness wanderings which had led to that moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law (or teachings), later referred to as the Law of Moses; the second reminds the Israelites of the need to follow Yahweh and the laws (or teachings) he has given them, on which their possession of the land depends; and the third offers the comfort that even should Israel prove unfaithful and so lose the land, with repentance all can be restored. The final four chapters (31–34) contain the Song of Moses, the Blessing of Moses, and narratives recounting the passing of the mantle of leadership from Moses to Joshua and, finally, the death of Moses on Mount Nebo.