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... less . The shortest verse is 1 Chronicles i . 25 . The word Jehovah occurs 6855 times . The word and 35,543 times . The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet . The 19th chapter of the second book ...
... less . The shortest verse is 1 Chronicles i . 25 . The word Jehovah occurs 6855 times . The word and 35,543 times . The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet . The 19th chapter of the second book ...
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... less than about six thousand years . Observe , now , there are the same characteristics in both these books . One is reflected in the other . The book of Genesis re- veals to us Almighty God , the Creator of all things very good ; Adam ...
... less than about six thousand years . Observe , now , there are the same characteristics in both these books . One is reflected in the other . The book of Genesis re- veals to us Almighty God , the Creator of all things very good ; Adam ...
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... less for the explana- tion of many of those deep mysteries — those ulti- mate causes , which seem beyond the grasp of the human intellect , and were evidently intended to be for ever hid from man in his sublunary condition . At the same ...
... less for the explana- tion of many of those deep mysteries — those ulti- mate causes , which seem beyond the grasp of the human intellect , and were evidently intended to be for ever hid from man in his sublunary condition . At the same ...
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... less than these we cannot allow . The intelligent reader does not yet , we are per- suaded , perceive , even in dim perspective , the popu- lar notion . It will not do to affirm that the begin- ning means six thousand years back ; this ...
... less than these we cannot allow . The intelligent reader does not yet , we are per- suaded , perceive , even in dim perspective , the popu- lar notion . It will not do to affirm that the begin- ning means six thousand years back ; this ...
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... less and less of the bivalve was visible , and it has not seen the sun for these two years at least , till now an acci- dental placing of the foot has laid it bare . Is this not the train of remark that every man would in- dulge in ...
... less and less of the bivalve was visible , and it has not seen the sun for these two years at least , till now an acci- dental placing of the foot has laid it bare . Is this not the train of remark that every man would in- dulge in ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?