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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Genesis, xxxv:4.)--"And they gave unto Jacob
all the strange gods which were in their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the
oak which was by Shechem.' Nablous is the modern name of Shechem. It is now a thrifty, well kept Eastern city with a population
of about 20,000, of which 160 are Samaritans, 600 are Christians, 200 are Jews, and the rest Mohammedans. The principal structures
of the city are mosques. The only Samaritans in the world live here near their sacred mountain, where they continue to worship
as they did when the woman of Samaria talked with our Savior at Jacob's well. There is a Samaritan synagogue here, where is
kept what is said to be the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. The whole country in the neighborhood of Shechem or Nablous
is historic." See 5204BAI/LVi122CAJS (Voyager # 359191)
Panoramic view of the city of Nablus
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