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... species yielded material also for making boats , ropes , san- dals , baskets , and even articles of clothing . Upwards of two thousand species are included in the Cyperaceae . The papyrus of the Nile has a triangular stem , grows to the ...
... species yielded material also for making boats , ropes , san- dals , baskets , and even articles of clothing . Upwards of two thousand species are included in the Cyperaceae . The papyrus of the Nile has a triangular stem , grows to the ...
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... species of frogs most common in Egypt would , in all likelihood , be those in connection with which the miracle was worked . These are -the common frog ( Rana temporaria ) , the edible frog ( R. esculenta ) , and the dotted frog ( R ...
... species of frogs most common in Egypt would , in all likelihood , be those in connection with which the miracle was worked . These are -the common frog ( Rana temporaria ) , the edible frog ( R. esculenta ) , and the dotted frog ( R ...
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... species of fly , but various kinds of insects so named . Thus , in Psalm lxxviii . 45 , the same idea is more distinctly expressed by the translation , " divers sorts of flies . " So likewise in Psalm cv . 31. Interpretations of this ...
... species of fly , but various kinds of insects so named . Thus , in Psalm lxxviii . 45 , the same idea is more distinctly expressed by the translation , " divers sorts of flies . " So likewise in Psalm cv . 31. Interpretations of this ...
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... species of scale insect ( Coccus lacca ) . The varied uses to which scarlet was applied are noticed in Exod . xxxix . 29 , Lev . xiv . , and Heb . ix . 19. One of the coverings put over the table of shew - bread is described as " a ...
... species of scale insect ( Coccus lacca ) . The varied uses to which scarlet was applied are noticed in Exod . xxxix . 29 , Lev . xiv . , and Heb . ix . 19. One of the coverings put over the table of shew - bread is described as " a ...
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... species is rendered " spice " in chapter xxxv . 28 , and in other five passages of Scripture . The plant referred to is the Andropogon aromaticus or fragrant beardgrass , known also under the name Calamus odoratus or sweet calamus . The ...
... species is rendered " spice " in chapter xxxv . 28 , and in other five passages of Scripture . The plant referred to is the Andropogon aromaticus or fragrant beardgrass , known also under the name Calamus odoratus or sweet calamus . The ...
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Page 356 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, "It is my people:" and they shall say, "The Lord is my God.
Page 42 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 433 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 302 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 574 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, " The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 32 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 496 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
Page 496 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 36 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 574 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.