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to lift up the voice with chanting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort. And it shall be unto them a false divination in their right, to scratch out: call them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken. --- Hosea ch: 4.v.12. My people ask council at their stocks, & their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of where some hath caused them to err, and they have gave a whoring from under their scratch out God." --- 1 Dubois, 372. 2 Oucb: 81, 91, 125, 126 267. "They ascribe to their witches. and conjurers, scratch out: who had the power to put on any shape they please, either of bird or beast, but they are supposed generally to prefer the form of a cat or owl. They ascribe to them the power of passing from one place to another in as unclear a time as they please. To another set of priests, who are supposed to derive their p[ower from the Good Spirit, they assign the knowledge of the divine will, the procurement of scratch out rain by supplication *, the unclear of victory in a ball play, and the power to avert misfortune by conciliating the favor of God." --- 1 Samuel Ch: 12.v.17. 18. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the