The Old Testament NarrativeAlfred Dwight Sheffield Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 - 510 pages |
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... wherefore it is said , Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord . And the beginning of his king- dom was Babel , and Erech , and Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar . " ] The Tower of Babel ( Gen. xi . 1–9 ) . And the ...
... wherefore it is said , Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord . And the beginning of his king- dom was Babel , and Erech , and Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar . " ] The Tower of Babel ( Gen. xi . 1–9 ) . And the ...
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... Wherefore he called that place Beer - sheba ; 1 because there they sware both of them . Thus 1 Beer - sheba . " Well of Seven " or " Well of the Oath . " The story of Isaac has the following account of the origin and naming of this ...
... Wherefore he called that place Beer - sheba ; 1 because there they sware both of them . Thus 1 Beer - sheba . " Well of Seven " or " Well of the Oath . " The story of Isaac has the following account of the origin and naming of this ...
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... Wherefore did Sarah laugh , saying , Shall I of a surety bear a child , which am old ? Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee , according to the time of life , and Sarah shall have a son ...
... Wherefore did Sarah laugh , saying , Shall I of a surety bear a child , which am old ? Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee , according to the time of life , and Sarah shall have a son ...
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... wherefore she said unto Abraham : " Cast out this bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bond woman shall not be heir with my son , even with Isaac . " And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son . And God ...
... wherefore she said unto Abraham : " Cast out this bondwoman and her son : for the son of this bond woman shall not be heir with my son , even with Isaac . " And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son . And God ...
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... wherefore standest thou without ? for I have prepared the house , and room for the camels . " And the man came into the house : and he ungirded his camels , and gave straw and provender for the camels , and 34 THE ANCESTORS OF THE HEBREWS.
... wherefore standest thou without ? for I have prepared the house , and room for the camels . " And the man came into the house : and he ungirded his camels , and gave straw and provender for the camels , and 34 THE ANCESTORS OF THE HEBREWS.
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Page 12 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Page 340 - Hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 12 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 503 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 66 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 31 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 10 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 19 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 27 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Page 1 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.