The Pictorial Bible: Genesis-JoshuaW. and R. Chambers, 1855 |
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... persons will think it quite suffi cient that it is used by St. Luke in his genealogy of Christ . This shews that it ... person . An earlier writer , Demetrius , who com- posed a history of the Jewish kings about 220 years before Christ ...
... persons will think it quite suffi cient that it is used by St. Luke in his genealogy of Christ . This shews that it ... person . An earlier writer , Demetrius , who com- posed a history of the Jewish kings about 220 years before Christ ...
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... persons was esteemed an important and desirable object . -Made war , ' etc. - Many writers have pointed out this transaction as one of the most improbable in the Hebrew history ; but it is one which a person acquainted with the usages ...
... persons was esteemed an important and desirable object . -Made war , ' etc. - Many writers have pointed out this transaction as one of the most improbable in the Hebrew history ; but it is one which a person acquainted with the usages ...
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... persons as prisoners , and if the whole be afterwards recovered by another party , then the persons are to be restored , but the property is to remain in the possession of those by whom it was recaptured . This elucidation , which has ...
... persons as prisoners , and if the whole be afterwards recovered by another party , then the persons are to be restored , but the property is to remain in the possession of those by whom it was recaptured . This elucidation , which has ...
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... person who receives it . Thus Pharaoh changed the name of Joseph ; another Egyptian king that of Eliakim , when he made him king of Judah ; Nebuchadnezzar those of Daniel and his companions ; and our Saviour that of Simon , who has ...
... person who receives it . Thus Pharaoh changed the name of Joseph ; another Egyptian king that of Eliakim , when he made him king of Judah ; Nebuchadnezzar those of Daniel and his companions ; and our Saviour that of Simon , who has ...
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... persons of the name of Saoud . Oriental history affords instances in which the added epithet has completely superseded ... person ; and it is considered a great honour to be a circumciser ( mohel ) . If the child seems unable to bear the ...
... persons of the name of Saoud . Oriental history affords instances in which the added epithet has completely superseded ... person ; and it is considered a great honour to be a circumciser ( mohel ) . If the child seems unable to bear the ...
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Page 15 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 9 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 12 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 72 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 9 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 172 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...
Page 193 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 203 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 220 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 34 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.