The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: The Jewish Historian: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Written by Himself, Volume 1James Cundee and M. Jones, 1806 |
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... commanded them to take care of the plants . Now the garden was watered by one river , which ran round about the whole earth , and was parted into four parts . Phison , which denotes a multitude , running into India , makes its exit into ...
... commanded them to take care of the plants . Now the garden was watered by one river , which ran round about the whole earth , and was parted into four parts . Phison , which denotes a multitude , running into India , makes its exit into ...
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... commanded them to send colonies abroad , for the thorough peopling of the earth , that they might not raise seditions among themselves , but might culti- vale a great part of the earth , and enjoy its fruits after a plentiful manner ...
... commanded them to send colonies abroad , for the thorough peopling of the earth , that they might not raise seditions among themselves , but might culti- vale a great part of the earth , and enjoy its fruits after a plentiful manner ...
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... commanded him . The manner of the sacrifice was this : * He took an heifer of three years old , and a she goat of three years old , and a ram in like manner of three years old , and a turtle - dove , and a pigeon ; and as he was ...
... commanded him . The manner of the sacrifice was this : * He took an heifer of three years old , and a she goat of three years old , and a ram in like manner of three years old , and a turtle - dove , and a pigeon ; and as he was ...
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... commanded her to take a bottle of water , and a loaf of bread , and so to depart , and to take necessity for her guide . But as soon as her necessary provisions failed , she found herself in an evil case ; and when the water was almost ...
... commanded her to take a bottle of water , and a loaf of bread , and so to depart , and to take necessity for her guide . But as soon as her necessary provisions failed , she found herself in an evil case ; and when the water was almost ...
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... commanded to slay his son , nor was he willing that he should be taken away from him whom he had made his father , shewed in his piety , he was delighted in having bestowed such blessings upon him , and that he would not be wanting in ...
... commanded to slay his son , nor was he willing that he should be taken away from him whom he had made his father , shewed in his piety , he was delighted in having bestowed such blessings upon him , and that he would not be wanting in ...
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Page 4 - And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform...
Page 325 - In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts ; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
Page 229 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Page 8 - He would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach ; and that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.
Page 97 - Canaan,) he dismissed the senate; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear, lest they should venture to say that, because of his extraordinary virtue, he went to God.
Page 192 - He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils; and when the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 5 - God to be their enemy, (73) for many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.
Page 174 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 14 - But Lot's wife continually turning back to view the city, as she went from it, and being too nicely inquisitive what would become of it, although God had forbidden her so to do, was changed into a pillar of salt £ ; for I have seen it, and it remains at this day.
Page 192 - Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon as he went out of the man to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...