The Bible for Home Reading, Volume 1Claude Goldsmid Montefiore Macmillan, 1896 |
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... according to our modern notions of bigness . The chief town of their country was the city of Jerusalem , a city still more famous even than Constantinople , though in a different way and for different reasons . But before going further ...
... according to our modern notions of bigness . The chief town of their country was the city of Jerusalem , a city still more famous even than Constantinople , though in a different way and for different reasons . But before going further ...
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... according to both narrators , has to travel far away from his old home . And as he journeyed , he came to a place Where he tarried all night , because the sun was set ; and he took a stone that was there , and put it for a pillow , and ...
... according to both narrators , has to travel far away from his old home . And as he journeyed , he came to a place Where he tarried all night , because the sun was set ; and he took a stone that was there , and put it for a pillow , and ...
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... According to the first , all Abraham's family and kinsmen wor- shipped ' other gods ' : according to the other , at least his brother Nahor with their children did not . They worshipped the one true God , and therefore Abraham and Isaac ...
... According to the first , all Abraham's family and kinsmen wor- shipped ' other gods ' : according to the other , at least his brother Nahor with their children did not . They worshipped the one true God , and therefore Abraham and Isaac ...
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... mother Rachel was dead long before . ) You will notice what Reuben says to his brothers just before Simeon is bound . This part of the story is given JACOB AND BENJAMIN 47 according to that version of it 46 THE BIBLE FOR HOME READING.
... mother Rachel was dead long before . ) You will notice what Reuben says to his brothers just before Simeon is bound . This part of the story is given JACOB AND BENJAMIN 47 according to that version of it 46 THE BIBLE FOR HOME READING.
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... according to his words could we certainly know that he would say , Bring your brother down ? And Judah said unto Israel his father , Send the lad with me , and we will arise and go ; that we may live , and not die , both we , and thou ...
... according to his words could we certainly know that he would say , Bring your brother down ? And Judah said unto Israel his father , Send the lad with me , and we will arise and go ; that we may live , and not die , both we , and thou ...
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Page 146 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 555 - And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 577 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 596 - 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 578 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 477 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye ^- // my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, That her warfare is accomplished; that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Page 89 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 479 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 493 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater : so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth : it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before...
Page 487 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.