Sentences with phrase «performed by our ancestors»

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Our ancestors did this by devising and performing the appropriate rituals.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

But there's building concern among geneticists and others that the tests performed, both by companies and in academic labs, may not be very accurate, largely because they match samples to «reference» populations of a particular ancestor who may or may not perfectly fit the desired profile.

Your modern dog's odd behaviors are often holdover instincts from necessary activities performed by her wild ancestors.