Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient ReligionsJohn Bohn, 1842 - 497 pages |
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... suppose that , like some unskilful workman , God made first this earth , and then the sun on which this earth depends ? That without laws , or subject to other laws than those which now regulate its existence , he drove forth our planet ...
... suppose that , like some unskilful workman , God made first this earth , and then the sun on which this earth depends ? That without laws , or subject to other laws than those which now regulate its existence , he drove forth our planet ...
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... suppose them with other teeth and jaws is to suppose them , as comparative anatomy shows us , with other limbs and another confirmation of body , i.e. is to suppose them something else than lions and tigers . ' 2 Yet in the reign of the ...
... suppose them with other teeth and jaws is to suppose them , as comparative anatomy shows us , with other limbs and another confirmation of body , i.e. is to suppose them something else than lions and tigers . ' 2 Yet in the reign of the ...
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... suppose that the days , on which they were held , were holidays throughout the land . In Greece , the days were of three belong to the calendar of the Vedas . Fire is thus addressed : " Thou art the first year of the cycle , thou art ...
... suppose that the days , on which they were held , were holidays throughout the land . In Greece , the days were of three belong to the calendar of the Vedas . Fire is thus addressed : " Thou art the first year of the cycle , thou art ...
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... suppose it might be the same as Eden ; but it is a town , and not a garden ; and the first habitation of the Persian people , and not that of Meschia and Meschiane , the Adam and Eve of the Zend - Avesta . 3 " There is a fair and ...
... suppose it might be the same as Eden ; but it is a town , and not a garden ; and the first habitation of the Persian people , and not that of Meschia and Meschiane , the Adam and Eve of the Zend - Avesta . 3 " There is a fair and ...
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... suppose not to be a proper name , but merely the generic term man , which , with the article HE prefixed to it , an article never found with proper names in Hebrew , signifies , " the man . " Its root , according to Josephus , means red ...
... suppose not to be a proper name , but merely the generic term man , which , with the article HE prefixed to it , an article never found with proper names in Hebrew , signifies , " the man . " Its root , according to Josephus , means red ...
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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...