Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient ReligionsJohn Bohn, 1842 - 497 pages |
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... legends and customs of half - civi- lized man . I found different nations uttering the same cry , speaking the same thought though not indeed in the same phrase , and I made nation interpret the language of nation . In this way I ...
... legends and customs of half - civi- lized man . I found different nations uttering the same cry , speaking the same thought though not indeed in the same phrase , and I made nation interpret the language of nation . In this way I ...
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... legend respecting it , quite in the Rabbinical taste : " Les Juifs parlent d'une rivière d'Orient , qui demeure immobile le septième jour de la semaine , ce qu'ils regardent comme une con- firmation de leur loi . Ils disent aussi que ce ...
... legend respecting it , quite in the Rabbinical taste : " Les Juifs parlent d'une rivière d'Orient , qui demeure immobile le septième jour de la semaine , ce qu'ils regardent comme une con- firmation de leur loi . Ils disent aussi que ce ...
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... legends ' of the Chinese , we hear sometimes of a fountain of immortality , at others , of a tree of life . And in the heaven of Indra , so the Hindu mythology teaches , is " a tree which sprang from the Amur- 5 Vide Fargard ii ; Vend ...
... legends ' of the Chinese , we hear sometimes of a fountain of immortality , at others , of a tree of life . And in the heaven of Indra , so the Hindu mythology teaches , is " a tree which sprang from the Amur- 5 Vide Fargard ii ; Vend ...
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... legend of the matter of which man was formed , or the supposed matter of which the man was formed to his name . We find exactly the same thing in northern mythology : the first pair were made out of the branches of two trees by the gods ...
... legend of the matter of which man was formed , or the supposed matter of which the man was formed to his name . We find exactly the same thing in northern mythology : the first pair were made out of the branches of two trees by the gods ...
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... legends . " Il est dit dans le Lou- se et le Vaiki que dans l'antiquité les hommes se cachoient au fond des antres et peuploient les déserts ; qu'ils vivoient en société avec toutes les créatures ; et que ne pensant pas à faire aucun ...
... legends . " Il est dit dans le Lou- se et le Vaiki que dans l'antiquité les hommes se cachoient au fond des antres et peuploient les déserts ; qu'ils vivoient en société avec toutes les créatures ; et que ne pensant pas à faire aucun ...
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Page 220 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 220 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 220 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 221 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 222 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 222 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 221 - And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons
Page 200 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 222 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 201 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...