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... human form , floating or brooding , as the ori- ginal term expresses it , upon the face of the deep . The great principle of light is exhibited in the different vehi- cles by which it is conveyed to us . The moon , a comet , and the ...
... human form , floating or brooding , as the ori- ginal term expresses it , upon the face of the deep . The great principle of light is exhibited in the different vehi- cles by which it is conveyed to us . The moon , a comet , and the ...
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... human guilt , and " offered himself without spot to God " as a full and sufficient expiation . The countenance of the venerable father is lighted up with a blended expression of solemn de- votion and meek resignation . His eyes , as ...
... human guilt , and " offered himself without spot to God " as a full and sufficient expiation . The countenance of the venerable father is lighted up with a blended expression of solemn de- votion and meek resignation . His eyes , as ...
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... human designs but for human benefit . The sa- voury meat which Esau had prepared is seen smoking upon a table beside the couch . Jacob and Rebekah are listening at the tent door with an expression of anxious apprehen- sion ; the mother ...
... human designs but for human benefit . The sa- voury meat which Esau had prepared is seen smoking upon a table beside the couch . Jacob and Rebekah are listening at the tent door with an expression of anxious apprehen- sion ; the mother ...
Page xlvi
... human labour and of human enterprise . Below the horizon , dimly appears the island of Rhouda , upon which stood the celebrated Nilometer , said by some writers to have been erected by Joseph , during his regency in Egypt . The base of ...
... human labour and of human enterprise . Below the horizon , dimly appears the island of Rhouda , upon which stood the celebrated Nilometer , said by some writers to have been erected by Joseph , during his regency in Egypt . The base of ...
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... human agent hovering over the imperial palace , and scattering from his awful grasp the destruction which was to render every Egyptian parent a mourner , from the sovereign to the slave . The lightning is hurled from his hands with an ...
... human agent hovering over the imperial palace , and scattering from his awful grasp the destruction which was to render every Egyptian parent a mourner , from the sovereign to the slave . The lightning is hurled from his hands with an ...
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Aaron Abel Abel's Abraham Adam agony Almighty altar Amalek anger appears artist has endeavoured ascer awful Balaam Balak behold Benjamin's sack brother burnt offering C.GRAY Cain censer commanded curse daugh daughters death descending DESTROYING ANGEL distance divine earth Edom Egypt Egyptian encamped Esau father fire first-born flocks God's hast heaven Hebrew immediately incense ISAAC BLESSING Israel Israelites JACOB BLESSING Joseph kindled king Korah land of Canaan land of Egypt land of Goshen lawgiver lifted light Manasseh miracle Miriam Moab mother Mount MOUNT NEBO Mount Pisgah mountain NADAB AND ABIHU patriarch Pharaoh Pisgah plague plain Potiphar Rebekah Red Sea represented rock rod of Moses sacrifice scene SCPT seen sent serpent SHALEM shalt thou smote Sodom solemn sons stands supposed tabernacle tables tent thee three angels took tower tree tribes unto the Lord venerable visitation voice whilst wife wrath Zoar
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Page 13 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 5 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 27 - They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation, except Aaron who was brother onto Moses; so was he spared.
Page 16 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Page 14 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven...
Page 29 - And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Page xxxviii - And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him ; but he refused to be comforted ; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Page 2 - In the six hundredth 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 the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 19 - And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone ; and they were afraid to come nigh him.