ceremonial bath
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She took the ceremonial bath at sunrise, and now the hermit-women are giving her rice-cakes and wishing her happiness.
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- It is clear, at least, that the later ritual prescribed a ceremonial bath as well as circumcision and sacrifice for all who came into Judaism from the Gentiles, and it is difficult to conceive of a time when a ceremonial bath would not seem indispensable, since Jews regarded all Gentile life as defiling. — The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
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She took the ceremonial bath at sunrise, and now the hermit-women are giving her rice-cakes and wishing her happiness.
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works -
It is clear, at least, that the later ritual prescribed a ceremonial bath as well as circumcision and sacrifice for all who came into Judaism from the Gentiles, and it is difficult to conceive of a time when a ceremonial bath would not seem indispensable, since Jews regarded all Gentile life as defiling.
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth -
_ You may tell my mother that I shall not take the ceremonial bath to-day.
— The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika -
She took the ceremonial bath at sunrise, and now the hermit-women are giving her rice-cakes and wishing her happiness.
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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