Introduction to the Book of Genesis, with a commentary on the opening portion, from the Germ., ed. by J. Heywood, Volume 21855 |
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... sufficient to decide its fate ; this Work can scarcely reckon , I am well aware , even on the simple cus- tom of the desert , which enjoins the Arab Bedouin to re- ceive the stranger and treat him kindly , before he asks , Who art thou ...
... sufficient to decide its fate ; this Work can scarcely reckon , I am well aware , even on the simple cus- tom of the desert , which enjoins the Arab Bedouin to re- ceive the stranger and treat him kindly , before he asks , Who art thou ...
Page xiv
... sufficiently obvious : there is hardly in the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis a doubtful construction , or a various reading of any importance , and the English reader has , in the ordinary version , a full and fair ...
... sufficiently obvious : there is hardly in the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis a doubtful construction , or a various reading of any importance , and the English reader has , in the ordinary version , a full and fair ...
Page xvii
... sufficiently provided with teachers in the department of Oriental literature . At Bonn , Von Bohlen studied Arabic under Freytag , and Sanscrit with Schlegel ; his talents and industry soon en- abled him to become a teacher of the ...
... sufficiently provided with teachers in the department of Oriental literature . At Bonn , Von Bohlen studied Arabic under Freytag , and Sanscrit with Schlegel ; his talents and industry soon en- abled him to become a teacher of the ...
Page xxix
... sufficient strength to come forward with its laws , to erect its pre- cepts into an unalterable form , and to refer their origin to the dim recesses of antiquity . Recent researches into the chronology of the ancient kingdom of Egypt ...
... sufficient strength to come forward with its laws , to erect its pre- cepts into an unalterable form , and to refer their origin to the dim recesses of antiquity . Recent researches into the chronology of the ancient kingdom of Egypt ...
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... sufficiently betrayed by the actual history . Finally , in those cases , where a people have gone beyond the limits of their own early history and particular tradi- tions , and have transmitted their opinions on the origin and ...
... sufficiently betrayed by the actual history . Finally , in those cases , where a people have gone beyond the limits of their own early history and particular tradi- tions , and have transmitted their opinions on the origin and ...
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Page 60 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 70 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 118 - And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Page 109 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Page 96 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 211 - Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land : And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all...
Page 120 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 284 - Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread ; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Page 224 - Ye shall dwell in booths seven days ; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt : I am the Lord your God.
Page 246 - Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.