The Bible for Home Reading, Volume 1Claude Goldsmid Montefiore Macmillan, 1896 |
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... turning - point in their history . They always believed that it was the most important event which had ever befallen them : it was after they left Egypt that they permanently settled in Palestine . It was then too that they changed ...
... turning - point in their history . They always believed that it was the most important event which had ever befallen them : it was after they left Egypt that they permanently settled in Palestine . It was then too that they changed ...
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... as if Esau were a great lord and Jacob were his servant . But things turned out far better than he expected , and better even than he deserved . This is what we are told . D And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother IV.
... as if Esau were a great lord and Jacob were his servant . But things turned out far better than he expected , and better even than he deserved . This is what we are told . D And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother IV.
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... turned out better than he could have dared to hope . Let us hear what happened . §3 . And Joseph's master took him , and put him into the prison , where the king's prisoners were bound : and he was there in the prison . But God was with ...
... turned out better than he could have dared to hope . Let us hear what happened . §3 . And Joseph's master took him , and put him into the prison , where the king's prisoners were bound : and he was there in the prison . But God was with ...
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... turned himself about from them , and wept ; and returned to them again , and spake to them , and took from them Simeon , and bound him before their eyes . Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn , and to restore every ...
... turned himself about from them , and wept ; and returned to them again , and spake to them , and took from them Simeon , and bound him before their eyes . Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn , and to restore every ...
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... , the bush burned with fire , but the bush was not consumed . And Moses said , I will now turn aside , and see this great sight , why the bush is not burnt . And when he turned aside to see , God called unto him out of the midst.
... , the bush burned with fire , but the bush was not consumed . And Moses said , I will now turn aside , and see this great sight , why the bush is not burnt . And when he turned aside to see , God called unto him out of the midst.
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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.