The Literary Man's Bible: A Selection of Passages from the Old Testament, Historic, Poetic and Philosophic, Illustrating Hebrew LiteratureWilliam Leonard Courtney |
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... dwell in Hebron , not in Beersheba . In the story of Joseph he makes Judah , and not Reuben , the spokesman of the brothers . Everywhere he magnifies Moses , and puts the North Israelitish figure of Aaron and the Ephraimite Joshua very ...
... dwell in Hebron , not in Beersheba . In the story of Joseph he makes Judah , and not Reuben , the spokesman of the brothers . Everywhere he magnifies Moses , and puts the North Israelitish figure of Aaron and the Ephraimite Joshua very ...
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... dwell in the presence of all his brethren . And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her , Thou God seest me for she said , Have I also here looked after him that seeth me ? Wherefore the well was called Beer - lahai - roi ...
... dwell in the presence of all his brethren . And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her , Thou God seest me for she said , Have I also here looked after him that seeth me ? Wherefore the well was called Beer - lahai - roi ...
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... dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country , and to my kindred , and take a wife unto my son Isaac . And the servant said unto him , Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land must I needs bring thy son again ...
... dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country , and to my kindred , and take a wife unto my son Isaac . And the servant said unto him , Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land must I needs bring thy son again ...
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... dwell : but thou shalt go unto my father's house , and to my kindred , and take a wife unto my And I said unto my master , Peradventure the woman will not follow me . And he said unto me , The LORD , before whom I walk , will send his ...
... dwell : but thou shalt go unto my father's house , and to my kindred , and take a wife unto my And I said unto my master , Peradventure the woman will not follow me . And he said unto me , The LORD , before whom I walk , will send his ...
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... dwell with the man : and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter . And she bare him a son , and he called his name Gershom : for he said , I have been a stranger in a strange land . And it came to pass in process of time , that the king of ...
... dwell with the man : and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter . And she bare him a son , and he called his name Gershom : for he said , I have been a stranger in a strange land . And it came to pass in process of time , that the king of ...
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Page 231 - 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 239 - Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Page 271 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 383 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 152 - 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.
Page 374 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, , • And would none of my reproof : I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 245 - Who is among you that feareth the LORD, That obeyeth the voice of his servant, That walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Page 248 - He. was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to • the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 56 - Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him : every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination...
Page 48 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the...