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Travellers

Called way-faring men - Jud 19:17; Isa 35:8

Preparations made by, alluded to - Eze 12:3,4

Often collected together and formed caravans - Ge 37:25; Isa 21:13; Lu 2:44

Often engaged persons acquainted with the country as guides - Nu 10:31,32; Job 29:15

FRIENDS OF

Generally commenced their journey early in the morning - Jud 19:5

Generally rested at noon - Ge 18:1,3; Joh 4:6

Halted at even - Ge 24:11

Generally halted at wells or streams - Ge 24:11; 32:21,23; Ex 15:27; 1Sa 30:21; Joh 4:6

CARRIED WITH THEM

Often travelled on foot - Ge 28:10; 32:10; Ex 12:37; Ac 20:13

On foot, how attired - Ex 12:11

After a long journey, described - Jos 9:4,5,13

OF DISTINCTION

Strangers civil to - Ge 18:2; 24:18,19

Generally treated with great hospitality - Ge 18:3-8; 19:2; 24:24,32,33; Ex 2:20; Jud 19:20,21; Job 31:32; Heb 13:2

The caravanserai or public inn for noticed - Ge 42:27; Ex 4:24; Lu 2:7; 10:34

Were frequently asked whence they came and whither they went - Jud 19:17

Protected by those who entertained them - Ge 19:6-8; Jud 19:23

For security often left the highways - Jud 5:6

Tesserae hospitales or pledges of hospitality, alluded to - Re 2:17

ON ERRANDS REQUIRING DESPATCH

Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied - Ge 31:23; De 1:2; 2Ki 3:9

The Jews prohibited from taking long journeys on the Sabbath - Ex 20:10; Ac 1:12

Ceasing of, threatened as a calamity - Isa 33:8

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