The Storehouses of the King: Or, The Pyramids of Egypt, what They Are, and who Built ThemW.H. Allen & Company, 1885 - 308 pages |
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... feet square . The building called the Naos would seem to have stood on the summit of the rock , in which graduated platforms were cut , forming the courts of the Jews and women . The Naos was 8 THE STOREHOUSES OF THE KING .
... feet square . The building called the Naos would seem to have stood on the summit of the rock , in which graduated platforms were cut , forming the courts of the Jews and women . The Naos was 8 THE STOREHOUSES OF THE KING .
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... feet in height , and divided into a sort of courts which have no roof , or any other covering whatever , in which are deposited the grains brought out of Upper Egypt for the revenue , where they are the food of a multitude of birds ...
... feet in height , and divided into a sort of courts which have no roof , or any other covering whatever , in which are deposited the grains brought out of Upper Egypt for the revenue , where they are the food of a multitude of birds ...
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... feet high and twenty - eight in breadth , upon it . This wall is not in the centre of the north summit of the mound , but appears to have formed the southern face of it . The other parts of the summit are covered by huge fragments of ...
... feet high and twenty - eight in breadth , upon it . This wall is not in the centre of the north summit of the mound , but appears to have formed the southern face of it . The other parts of the summit are covered by huge fragments of ...
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... feet . The brick wall itself , which stands on the edge of the summit , and was undoubtedly the face of another stage , is 37 feet high . In the side of the pile , a little below its summit , is very clearly to be seen part of another ...
... feet . The brick wall itself , which stands on the edge of the summit , and was undoubtedly the face of another stage , is 37 feet high . In the side of the pile , a little below its summit , is very clearly to be seen part of another ...
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... feet in depth from the entrance . By that time , they were be- coming thoroughly exhausted , and began to despair of the hard and hitherto fruitless labour , when one day they heard a great stone fall evidently in some hollow space ...
... feet in depth from the entrance . By that time , they were be- coming thoroughly exhausted , and began to despair of the hard and hitherto fruitless labour , when one day they heard a great stone fall evidently in some hollow space ...
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THE STOREHOUSES OF THE KING: THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT WHAT THEY ARE AND WHO ... Jane van Gelder Limited preview - 2014 |
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Page 306 - And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt...
Page 296 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 192 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 11 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 11 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 193 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very fro ward generation, Children in whom is no faith.
Page 3 - 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 114 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 12 - 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 112 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.