| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Sinaitic covenant which rendered Israel a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Ex. xix. 6) became, the Rabbis say, a source of hatred to the nations" (Shab. 89a: a play upon words, Sinai???Sin'ah), because it separated it from them by statutes and ordinances such as the dietary and the Levitical purity laws and others intended to prevent idolatrous practises.
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