Old Testament NarrativesGeorge Henry Nettleton H. Holt and Company, 1909 - 294 pages |
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... seven days , and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth . And Noah did ac- cording unto all that the Lord commanded ...
... seven days , and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth . And Noah did ac- cording unto all that the Lord commanded ...
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... seven days , that the waters of the flood were upon the earth . In the six hun- dredth 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 ...
... seven days , that the waters of the flood were upon the earth . In the six hun- dredth 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 ...
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... seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ; and the dove came in to him in the evening ; and , lo , in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth . And he ...
... seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ; and the dove came in to him in the evening ; and , lo , in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth . And he ...
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... seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter . And Laban said , It is better that I give her to thee , than that I should give her to another man : abide with me . And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a ...
... seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter . And Laban said , It is better that I give her to thee , than that I should give her to another man : abide with me . And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a ...
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... seven other years . And Jacob did so , and fulfilled her week : and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also . And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid . And he went in also unto Rachel , and he loved ...
... seven other years . And Jacob did so , and fulfilled her week : and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also . And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid . And he went in also unto Rachel , and he loved ...
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Page 4 - And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 36 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God...
Page 283 - ... claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say...
Page 278 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which •shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Page 36 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Page 6 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 180 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 5 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept : and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 103 - 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 2 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.