Genesis: Its Authorship and AuthenticityFreethought Publishing Company, 1882 - 346 pages |
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Abraham according Adam adds Aleim amongst ancient animals antiquity Arphaxad beast begat Bellamy Bible Bishop Colenso Bishop Patrick blood Bohlen Cahen Cahen says Cain Cainan called Calmet Canaan Casluhim chap chapter Commentary created creation creatures declares deity deluge Deuteronomy divine Dodanim Douay earth Egypt Egyptian Elohim Elohist existence Exodus Ezekiel father flesh flood fowl fruit Geddes Genesis Gliddon gods Greek heaven human inhabitants Isaiah Japheth Jehovah Jews Josephus Kalisch Kalisch says Lamech land language legend Leviticus living Lord mankind meaning Moses mountains myth Mythology nations Nimrod Noah Old Testament original passage Pentateuch period plural quoted race regards rendered sacrifice Samaritan Scripture Semitic Septuagint serpent Seth Shem signifies sons sons of Noah spirit story supposed Talmud Terah thee things tion Togarmah trace translated tree unto verse waters whole word writer written
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Page 116 - 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?
Page 238 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 174 - For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 143 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 123 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Page 114 - 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 57 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Page 74 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 124 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.