But yet the demand is stated too broadly and imperatively to belong to that later modification: it suits exactly the time to which it is attributed, before the tribe of Levi was substituted for the firstborn of all.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Rather, indeed, it required, for courtesy's sake, modification.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Capable, as it has been shown to be, of modification in form, it is anything but limited to either Tibet, or the families allied to the Tibetan.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham