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46 afraid to die. Her father replied that he could not strike the blow while she looked upon him and again cast it over her. She threw it off the second time and said she would look upward, that his arm might not be unnerved by her gaze. A third time, however, he insisted and a third time she as resolutely cast it off, this time holding the ends of it firmly in her hands and casting her eyes upward, invited the fatal blow. And a deed was consummated which has rendered the name of Jephthah's Daughter famous in the annals of Scripture.

The sign of this degree is given by—

The pass. ( 4. )

The color appropriate to this degree is blue, which symbolizes Fidelity and teaches us to be faithful to all moral obligations.

The emblems are the Sword and Veil. By the sword Adah was slain. The veil alludes to her determination to die in the light, suffering no stain to rest upon her memory.