Thou shalt keep naught of the accursed

THING, that the LORD MAY TURN FROM THE
HEAT OF His wrath and SHOW THEE MERCY AND
KINDNESS AND INCREASE THEE ; — the whole time
that the ungodly is in the world, the HEAT OF
WRATH is in the world ; when the ungodly, is
perished from the world, the HEAT OF WRATH is
taken from the world.
T. XIV. 6. If they slay the men, and burn the
clothing, and hamstring the cattle (is this according
to the Law ?) ^ R. Meir says, "Where it is customary
to destroy by shedding blood, you shed blood ; where
it is by burning, you burn ; and where by hamstring-
ing, you hamstring."

A man is not put to death by means of arrows or
spears, and not with the point of the sword but with
its edge, as. it is written : With the edge of the

SWORD.*

And it shall be a perpetual heap, and
shall no more be built ; ^ — they shall not even
make it into gardens or parks, — so R. Jose the
Galilaean ; but R. Akiba says : It shall no more
BE built, that is, in the form that it was before it
shall not be built up ; but it may be made into
gardens and parks.
And it shall be a perpetual heap, as it was

in the days of Joshua. R. Jose and R. Jehoshua,

^ the son of Karha, say : Behold it says, Cursed is

the man before the Lord who shall rise and

build this city, Jericho ; * but do we not know

' Because Josh. 6. 21 says, "They utterly destroyed all . ..
