The Authentic Literature of Israel: Freed from the Disarrangements, Expansions and Comments of Early Native Editors, Volume 1Elizabeth Czarnomska Macmillan, 1924 |
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... seven periods of each of which the beginning is pictured with profuse detail and the end strongly condensed . These periods are : 1. The Exodus from Egypt and the Settlement in Canaan ( c . 1220- 1160 B.C. ) ; 2. The Rise of Monarchy ...
... seven periods of each of which the beginning is pictured with profuse detail and the end strongly condensed . These periods are : 1. The Exodus from Egypt and the Settlement in Canaan ( c . 1220- 1160 B.C. ) ; 2. The Rise of Monarchy ...
Page xxvi
... seven years of the reigns of Manasseh and his son Amon were an orgy of all that is most vile in irresponsible tyranny , the worst blot on the history of David's line . Nevertheless , from it was born , through revulsion of popular ...
... seven years of the reigns of Manasseh and his son Amon were an orgy of all that is most vile in irresponsible tyranny , the worst blot on the history of David's line . Nevertheless , from it was born , through revulsion of popular ...
Page xxx
... seven accented syllables , or stresses , separated by one , two or more unaccented syllables , and not by a fixed number as in our modern poetry . The lines are also grouped in couplets with an occasional triplet . b . Between the two ...
... seven accented syllables , or stresses , separated by one , two or more unaccented syllables , and not by a fixed number as in our modern poetry . The lines are also grouped in couplets with an occasional triplet . b . Between the two ...
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... seven times and riseth up again ; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity . Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth , Let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth ; Lest Yahweh see it , and it displease Him , And He turneth away His ...
... seven times and riseth up again ; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity . Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth , Let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth ; Lest Yahweh see it , and it displease Him , And He turneth away His ...
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... seven and seven , male and female , to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth . For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy ...
... seven and seven , male and female , to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth . For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy ...
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Abimelech Abishai Abner Abraham Absalom Achish Adonijah Ahab Ahaziah altar Amorites answered Aramæans ark of Yahweh Balaam behold blessed bread brethren bring brother brought called Canaan chariots Children of Israel daughter dwelt earth Edom Egypt Egyptians Ephraim Esau evil eyes fled Gibeah Gibeon Gideon hearkened heart House of Yahweh Isaac Jacob Jehoshaphat Jeroboam Jerusalem Joab Jonathan Jordan Joseph Joshua Judah Keilah king of Israel king's Laban land of Egypt messenger of Yahweh Midian Moab mouth pass Pharaoh Philistines pray thee priests prophets Rehoboam reigned righteous saith Yahweh Samaria Samuel Saul say unto sent Shechem slew smote Solomon sons spake unto sword tent thereof thine thou hast thou shalt thy father thy servant told took tribes unto Moses unto the king unto thee unto Yahweh Wherefore wicked wife wilderness wilt woman word of Yahweh Yahweh hath Yahweh said unto
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Page 170 - And the Angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I.
Page 194 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 169 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 407 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 169 - 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 33 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 338 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Page 167 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 186 - But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Page 327 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, " Let us go and serve other gods...