three-and-twenty-judges

Updated: May 26, 2025

But a second voice came piercing through the boom and clash of those waves of sound, and it was thin and shrill as the cry of a pea-hen. Naomi knew this voice also it was the voice of Judah ben Lolo, the elder of the synagogue, who would have been sitting among the three-and-twenty-judges but that he was a usurer also. "Why go to the Kaid?" said the voice like a peahen.

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