The Literary Man's Bible: A Selection of Passages from the Old Testament, Historic, Poetic and Philosophic, Illustrating Hebrew LiteratureWilliam Leonard Courtney Chapman and Hall, 1908 - 414 pages |
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... young race compared with the Babylonians and the Egyptians . Chronology carries back the beginnings of civilization to dates previous to 5000 B.C .: indeed , the estimated date of the foundation of the Temple of Bel at Nippur is put ...
... young race compared with the Babylonians and the Egyptians . Chronology carries back the beginnings of civilization to dates previous to 5000 B.C .: indeed , the estimated date of the foundation of the Temple of Bel at Nippur is put ...
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... young man ; and he hasted to dress it . And he took butter , and milk , and the calf which he had dressed , and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree , and they did eat . And they said unto him , Where is Sarah thy ...
... young man ; and he hasted to dress it . And he took butter , and milk , and the calf which he had dressed , and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree , and they did eat . And they said unto him , Where is Sarah thy ...
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... 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 . Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes , and saw the place afar off . And ...
... 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 . Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes , and saw the place afar off . And ...
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... young men , and they rose up and went together to Beer - sheba ; and Abraham dwelt at Beer - sheba . The Wooing of Rebekah . — Everything about this story is idyllic and pictur- esque . It is admirably told , its bright literary ...
... young men , and they rose up and went together to Beer - sheba ; and Abraham dwelt at Beer - sheba . The Wooing of Rebekah . — Everything about this story is idyllic and pictur- esque . It is admirably told , its bright literary ...
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... young are with me : and if men should overdrive them one day , all the flock will die . Let my lord , I pray thee , pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly , according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children ...
... young are with me : and if men should overdrive them one day , all the flock will die . Let my lord , I pray thee , pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly , according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children ...
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Page 231 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together ; And a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed ; Their young ones shall lie down together : And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, * And the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 239 - Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Page 271 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 383 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 152 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 374 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, , • And would none of my reproof : I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 245 - Who is among you that feareth the LORD, That obeyeth the voice of his servant, That walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Page 248 - He. was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to • the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 56 - Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him : every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination...
Page 48 - 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. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the...