A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical GeologiesOgle, Duncan, and Company, 1822 - 460 pages |
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Page 212 - And GOD created GREAT WHALES, and " every living creature that moveth, which the " waters brought forth abundantly after their " kind; and every winged fowl after its kind. " And GOD saw that it was good. " And GOD blessed them, saying : Be fruitful
Page 182 - Thou art clothed with honour and majesty ! " Who laidest the foundations of the earth, " that it should not be removed for ever. Thou " coveredst it with the deep, as with a garment; " the waters stood above the mountains. At " Thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of Thy thun
Page 140 - And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness; and God called the light DAY, and the darkness He called NIGHT. " And the evening and the morning were the FIRST DAY.
Page 417 - After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now, there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-market, a bath, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great number of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered. And a certain man was there,
Page 129 - of the dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations
Page 129 - ever THE EARTH was. When there was no depths I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, was I brought forth: while as yet He had not made
Page 420 - thus: And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of
Page 421 - the knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. And the Lord God took the man, and
Page 425 - GOD, in the beginning, created by His power, and set in order by the counsels of His intelligence, ALL material things; in such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to THE END for which He formed them.
Page 133 - and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that He variously associated them, and set them in order, in His FIRST CREATION, by the counsels of His own Intelligence; antecedently to the commencement of all secondary causes, or laws, which, though they might continue the