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Berith - the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life

Berit, Bris, Briss, Brith

circumcision - the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite

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The Identity and Function of El/Baal Berith. JBL 115: 401-23.

The God Gad

AddDJP: he berith horn his sceip [??]at first was lost (cf.

An Introduction to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Don. e. 247

O mon roi" and Bernstein's "Civet a toute vitesse." Her English volume features several Britten realizations of Purcell songs and a few of the famous Britten folksong arrangements, along with Rorem's "Orchids" and Warlock's "The Bayly Berith the Bell Away." Each song has diction comments specific to that text, rather than listing an IPA transliteration.

The Boosey Voice Coach: Learning through Repertoire: Singing in English; Singing in French; Singing in German

(54) In this spirit of parodie imitation, it is worth noting that in the Farce du Munyer that precedes Le Mystere de Saint Martin, Lucifer in extending mercy to his minion, Berith, uses the very phrase ("grace planyere") that God speaks in the first lines of the Semur Passion.

Law, farce, and counter-kingship in the Semur fall of Lucifer

Rebekah Laden Sturdey, 56, and Boqer-ore Adie, 43, of Beth Berith, near Llwynygroes, Tregaron, were told they would go back to jail if they did not pay the cash within six months.

Secret burial pair ordered to repay PS90k

We are grateful for the review expertise of Marian Joergensen and her assistance in preparing the manuscript and for the highly qualified assistance with laboratory analyses by Ann Berith Petersen, Shila Mortensen, and Jesper Roenn.

Human parechovirus infection, Denmark

The last confirmed sighting of Geoffrey Howard Sturdey, of Beth Berith, Llwynygroes, Tregaron, west Wales, was in October 2008.

Four in court over man's disappearance