The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... reft , the Evening and the Morning . And this was indeed the first day . But Mofes faid it was one day ; the caufe of which I am able to give even now , but because I have promifed to give fuch reafons for all thing in a treatife by ...
... reft , the Evening and the Morning . And this was indeed the first day . But Mofes faid it was one day ; the caufe of which I am able to give even now , but because I have promifed to give fuch reafons for all thing in a treatife by ...
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... reft , and a release from the labour of fuch operations ; whence it is that we celebrate a reft from our labours on that day , and call it the Sabbath which word denotes reft in the Hebrew tongue . 2. Moreover Mofes , after the feventh ...
... reft , and a release from the labour of fuch operations ; whence it is that we celebrate a reft from our labours on that day , and call it the Sabbath which word denotes reft in the Hebrew tongue . 2. Moreover Mofes , after the feventh ...
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... reft it would be tedious to name them ; I will therefore on- ly endeavour to give an account of thofe that proceeded from Seth . Now this Seth , when he was brought up , and came to thofe years in which he could difcern what was good ...
... reft it would be tedious to name them ; I will therefore on- ly endeavour to give an account of thofe that proceeded from Seth . Now this Seth , when he was brought up , and came to thofe years in which he could difcern what was good ...
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... reft , all forts of living creatures , the male and his female , for the prefervation of their kinds ; and others of them by fevens . Now this ark had firm walls , and a roof , and was braced with crofs beams , fo that it could not be ...
... reft , all forts of living creatures , the male and his female , for the prefervation of their kinds ; and others of them by fevens . Now this ark had firm walls , and a roof , and was braced with crofs beams , fo that it could not be ...
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... reft , Ludiem , and Enemim , and Labim , who alone inhabited in Libya , and called the country from himself . Nedim and Phethrofim , and Chefloim , and Cephthorim , we know nothing of them 24 ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . [ Book I.
... reft , Ludiem , and Enemim , and Labim , who alone inhabited in Libya , and called the country from himself . Nedim and Phethrofim , and Chefloim , and Cephthorim , we know nothing of them 24 ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . [ Book I.
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. 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...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... 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...
Page 16 - 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.