The Wars of the Jews, 2.148

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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148Nay, on theother days they dig a small pit, a foot deep, with a paddle (which kind of hatchet is given them when they are first admitted among them); and covering themselves round with their garment, that they may not affront the Divine rays of light, they ease themselves into that pit,

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