customs Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/customs/ To prepare people for eternal life. Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:30:35 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.stepstolife.org/WordPress21/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Cross-from-STL-Bible-Study-Logo512-32x32.jpg customs Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/customs/ 32 32 Customs of Bible Times – Wedding Feast https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-wedding-feast/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:58:43 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6963 “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding” (Matthew 22:2, 3). Again, the parable of the great supper has this double invitation in it:...

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – The Sacred Duty of Hospitality https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-sacred-duty-hospitality/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:04:00 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6830 When a guest is received into an Eastern home, bowing between the guests and host is quite apt to take place. In Western lands such bowing would be of the head only, but in the East there is a more expressive custom of saluting with the head erect and the body a little inclined forward, by raising the hand to the heart, mouth, and forehead.

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – Daily Program of Activities https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-daily-program-activities/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:07:26 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6711 The Arab women, in washing their clothes today, usually go to nearby sources of water such as streams, pools, or watering troughs. They will dip their clothes in and out of the water, and then, placing them upon flat stones which abound in Palestine, they will beat them with a club, which is about a foot and a half long.

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – Parental Position in the Home https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-parental-position-home/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:18:59 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6547 Unlike within most homes today, in Bible times each member of the family held a certain position in the home, which came with specific duties.

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – Conducting Negotiations to Secure a Wife https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-conducting-negotiations-secure-wife/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:49:11 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6122 The customs of the Arabs in certain areas of Bible lands when they negotiate to secure a bride for their son, illustrate in many respects Biblical practices. If a young man has acquired sufficient means to make it possible for him to provide a marriage dowry, then his parents select the girl and the negotiations begin.

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – Betrothal and Wedding https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-betrothal-wedding/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 03:36:57 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6009 The wedding festivities, and especial­ly the bride’s adornment, would always be remembered by her. The prophet Jer­emiah made reference to this thought, “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?” Jeremiah 2:32.

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]]> Customs of Bible Times – Death in Eastern Lands https://www.stepstolife.org/article/customs-bible-times-death-eastern-lands/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:52:38 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=5973 The attitude of the people of the East toward death, and their behavior at such times, is so strikingly different from the attitude and behavior in the West that the Bible student will do well to study such customs.

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