The Hebrew Migration from EgyptTrübner and Company, 1879 - 440 pages |
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Aaron Abraham according Aila Akaba Amalekites amongst Amorites apparently Araba Arnon believed Book of Numbers border Brugsch called Canaan captives century children of Israel conclusion covenant Dead Sea deity descendants desert Deut dwelt east Edom Egypt Egyptian Elath Elim Elohim encamped Etham Eusebius Exod Exodus frontier Gerar Gilead Gulf of Akaba Hebrew Horeb Idumæa inhabitants Israelites Jahveh Jam Suph Jeshimon Jordan Josephus journey Judæa Judah Kadesh Kenites king known land latter Manasseh midbhar Midian Migdol migration from Egypt Moab Moses Mount Hor Mount Sinai mountain nachal narrative neighbourhood nomadic Palestine Paran passage passed Petra Pharaoh possessions probably quitted Egypt Rameses records Red Sea referred Rephidim respecting rock route Saul Seir Shur signifies Sinaitic peninsula story subsequently Suez supposed territory tion took traditions Trans-Jordanic Trans-Jordanic region tribes unto valley Wady whilst wilderness wilderness of Zin word xxxiii Zoan
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Page 327 - And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 55 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 54 - 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 55 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page v - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 42 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Page 395 - Get thee up into this mountain, Ab'arim, unto Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho ; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel...
Page 189 - Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Page 333 - For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Page 395 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.