A short history of the ancient Israelites, enlarged from the Apparatus biblicus of père Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by A. Clarke [from the tr. by T. Bedford].1802 |
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... land was not able to bear them together * . Jacob had a great number when he came back from Mesopotamia ; since the pre- sent that he made to his brother Esau was five hundred and eighty head of cattle of different sortst . From which ...
... land was not able to bear them together * . Jacob had a great number when he came back from Mesopotamia ; since the pre- sent that he made to his brother Esau was five hundred and eighty head of cattle of different sortst . From which ...
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... lands , on which they were obliged to live , during the space of the nine hundred years I have mentioned . Should we not esteem that family very noble indeed , that could shew as long a succession of generations , without any ...
... lands , on which they were obliged to live , during the space of the nine hundred years I have mentioned . Should we not esteem that family very noble indeed , that could shew as long a succession of generations , without any ...
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... lands and their flocks , and work- ing with their own hands . Hesiod has written a poem on purpose to recommend husbandry , as the only creditable means of subsisting and im- proving ones fortune ; and finds fault with his brother , to ...
... lands and their flocks , and work- ing with their own hands . Hesiod has written a poem on purpose to recommend husbandry , as the only creditable means of subsisting and im- proving ones fortune ; and finds fault with his brother , to ...
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... lands and vines , the method of building stables for different sorts of beasts , and a press for wine or oil ; and all this in the most circumstantial man- ner ; so that , we see , he understood it perfectly , and did not write out of ...
... lands and vines , the method of building stables for different sorts of beasts , and a press for wine or oil ; and all this in the most circumstantial man- ner ; so that , we see , he understood it perfectly , and did not write out of ...
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... lands , vines , oxen and sheep . From thence are bor- rowed most of the metaphorical expressions . Kings and other chiefs are called shepherds ; and the people , their flocks ; to govern them , is to find pasture for them . Thus , the ...
... lands , vines , oxen and sheep . From thence are bor- rowed most of the metaphorical expressions . Kings and other chiefs are called shepherds ; and the people , their flocks ; to govern them , is to find pasture for them . Thus , the ...
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Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 231 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Page 143 - And the Lord said unto Moses, " Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Page 242 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean...
Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
Page 220 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 179 - Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
Page 185 - I more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 139 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 259 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold : six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.