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... Locks and Bars - Two Gates -Markets held in Gates - Justice administered and Strangers received there - Eastern Streets - Their Names -Avenues - Bazaars - Pavement - Wells . 84 CONTENTS . CHAPTER VI . CAVES AND ROCKS . Caves.
... Locks and Bars - Two Gates -Markets held in Gates - Justice administered and Strangers received there - Eastern Streets - Their Names -Avenues - Bazaars - Pavement - Wells . 84 CONTENTS . CHAPTER VI . CAVES AND ROCKS . Caves.
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... stranger's , and he calls them by their names . Until this day you see two women grinding at a mill ; and when the Consul- General Farren of Great Britain visited Bethlehem , the natives being very fond of him , and knowing his interest ...
... stranger's , and he calls them by their names . Until this day you see two women grinding at a mill ; and when the Consul- General Farren of Great Britain visited Bethlehem , the natives being very fond of him , and knowing his interest ...
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... stranger ; they move onward to some distant place , and pitch their tent near richer pastur- age ; and all the treasures they possess are in camels , kine , sheep , and goats ; men - servants and women- servants ; and changes of raiment ...
... stranger ; they move onward to some distant place , and pitch their tent near richer pastur- age ; and all the treasures they possess are in camels , kine , sheep , and goats ; men - servants and women- servants ; and changes of raiment ...
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... as a proof of their faith ; " dwelling in tabernacles in the land that had been promised them , they showed that they felt themselves " strangers and pilgrims , " and that DWELLERS IN HOUSES . they " looked for a city.
... as a proof of their faith ; " dwelling in tabernacles in the land that had been promised them , they showed that they felt themselves " strangers and pilgrims , " and that DWELLERS IN HOUSES . they " looked for a city.
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... strangers , who were enjoying his hospitality . He was one of the handsomest Arabs I ever saw : tall , robust , and well made , with a countenance in which intelli- gence was no less marked than courage and resolution . He received me ...
... strangers , who were enjoying his hospitality . He was one of the handsomest Arabs I ever saw : tall , robust , and well made , with a countenance in which intelli- gence was no less marked than courage and resolution . He received me ...
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Page 298 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet : but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 101 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 485 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 443 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 462 - And it came to pass that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Page 471 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 488 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 194 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 447 - I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts : and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 519 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.