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... writer , since there was no king in Israel until long after the death of Moses . Again , Exod . xvi . 35. " And the chil- dren of Israel did eat manna forty years , till they came to a land inhabited ; they did eat manna till they came ...
... writer , since there was no king in Israel until long after the death of Moses . Again , Exod . xvi . 35. " And the chil- dren of Israel did eat manna forty years , till they came to a land inhabited ; they did eat manna till they came ...
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... writers , with their other names in the text , to be retained as near as may be , according as they are vulgarly used . 3. The old ecclesiastical words to be kept , viz . , the word church not to be translated congregation , & c . 4 ...
... writers , with their other names in the text , to be retained as near as may be , according as they are vulgarly used . 3. The old ecclesiastical words to be kept , viz . , the word church not to be translated congregation , & c . 4 ...
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... writer ; that before he writes the name of God he shall wash his pen ; that no letter shall be joined to another ; and that if the blank parchment cannot be seen all around each letter , the roll shall be corrupt . They had also settled ...
... writer ; that before he writes the name of God he shall wash his pen ; that no letter shall be joined to another ; and that if the blank parchment cannot be seen all around each letter , the roll shall be corrupt . They had also settled ...
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... writers on no occasion pro- fessedly treat of natural science , yet we find many allusions to the operations of nature scattered through their pages . Much of the beautiful imagery of Scrip- ture , too , is drawn from natural objects ...
... writers on no occasion pro- fessedly treat of natural science , yet we find many allusions to the operations of nature scattered through their pages . Much of the beautiful imagery of Scrip- ture , too , is drawn from natural objects ...
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... writers on animals previous to the discoveries of Cuvier . The spontaneous production of animals from the earth or soil without a parent , and the equivocal production of new species from the bodies of other larger animals , were also ...
... writers on animals previous to the discoveries of Cuvier . The spontaneous production of animals from the earth or soil without a parent , and the equivocal production of new species from the bodies of other larger animals , were also ...
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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?