A New Universal Biography: First series, from the creation to the birth of ChristSherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... wife Sarah , and his nephew Lot , removed from Haran , and , traversing a part of the land of Canaan , took a temporary station at Sichem , where he erected an altar to the Lord . He was soon obliged by a famine to go into Egypt , where ...
... wife Sarah , and his nephew Lot , removed from Haran , and , traversing a part of the land of Canaan , took a temporary station at Sichem , where he erected an altar to the Lord . He was soon obliged by a famine to go into Egypt , where ...
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... wife's metamor- phosis , with his fatal intoxication , and involuntary incest , are recorded in Gen. xiii , xiv . and xix . His righteous character is particularly taken notice of by the apostle , 2 Pet . ii . 7 , 8 . Some trace the ...
... wife's metamor- phosis , with his fatal intoxication , and involuntary incest , are recorded in Gen. xiii , xiv . and xix . His righteous character is particularly taken notice of by the apostle , 2 Pet . ii . 7 , 8 . Some trace the ...
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... wife attracted the attention of a monarch ; insomuch that instead of acknow- ledging her to be his wife , he styled her his sister , though in reality she was not . The king , however , being warned in a dream , reproved the patriarch ...
... wife attracted the attention of a monarch ; insomuch that instead of acknow- ledging her to be his wife , he styled her his sister , though in reality she was not . The king , however , being warned in a dream , reproved the patriarch ...
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... wife unto my son ; but go into the country where my relations live , and there take a wife unto my son Isaac . Eliezer departed with many camels and rich presents , and went to the city of Nahor , in Mesopo- tamia , whence he brought ...
... wife unto my son ; but go into the country where my relations live , and there take a wife unto my son Isaac . Eliezer departed with many camels and rich presents , and went to the city of Nahor , in Mesopo- tamia , whence he brought ...
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... wife of his own family , When Jacob returned out of that coun- try , after twenty years , Isaac was living , and continued so twenty - three years longer . He died aged an hundred four- score and eight years , in the year of the world ...
... wife of his own family , When Jacob returned out of that coun- try , after twenty years , Isaac was living , and continued so twenty - three years longer . He died aged an hundred four- score and eight years , in the year of the world ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Seite 73 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Seite 37 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Seite 575 - The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of tissue— O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which...
Seite 12 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Seite 101 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth ; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Seite 101 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 574 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 54 - And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Seite 37 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.