The Storehouses of the King: Or, The Pyramids of Egypt, what They Are, and who Built ThemW.H. Allen & Company, 1885 - 308 pages |
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Page 118 - 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 ; and I will put enmity between thee
Page 300 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, 1 will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. " Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them : they sank as lead in the mighty waters."*
Page 196 - father that hath bought thee ? hath he not made thee, and established thee ? " Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided to the nations
Page 116 - 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 rnidst of the garden,
Page 116 - on the seventh day He rested from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it : because that in it He had rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Page 7 - of Egypt ; and Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of tine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him ride in the second chariot which he had, and
Page 93 - there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land . . . and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
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Page 116 - of 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.
Page 300 - man of war : the Lord is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea : his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them : they sank into the bottom as a stone.