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Page 44
... trees were oaks , maples , poplars , pine , cedar , as well as some mulberry and palm trees . Among the fruits were apples , quinces , pears , apricots , citrons , olives , pomegranates , grapes , and figs . Wheat and barley were also ...
... trees were oaks , maples , poplars , pine , cedar , as well as some mulberry and palm trees . Among the fruits were apples , quinces , pears , apricots , citrons , olives , pomegranates , grapes , and figs . Wheat and barley were also ...
Page 45
... trees , for they were not to destroy them when they were making siege and thus bring famine- " For the tree of the field is man's life " ( Deut . xx . 19 ) . The resources of the land indicate that skill and industry must be of great ...
... trees , for they were not to destroy them when they were making siege and thus bring famine- " For the tree of the field is man's life " ( Deut . xx . 19 ) . The resources of the land indicate that skill and industry must be of great ...
Page 61
... tree . Though such a man had angels for interpreters and a book let down from heaven for authority , he could never comprehend the statement that " the Lord , the Creator of the ends of the earth , fainteth not , neither is weary ...
... tree . Though such a man had angels for interpreters and a book let down from heaven for authority , he could never comprehend the statement that " the Lord , the Creator of the ends of the earth , fainteth not , neither is weary ...
Page 67
... trees ( Gen. iii . 8 ) . Cain holds a con- versation with the Lord and intimates the divine ignorance by the question which proclaims his own folly . It is a conversation that no man would have dared to hold who knew that God is all ...
... trees ( Gen. iii . 8 ) . Cain holds a con- versation with the Lord and intimates the divine ignorance by the question which proclaims his own folly . It is a conversation that no man would have dared to hold who knew that God is all ...
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... trees , holy altars , holy temples , and holy areas of land sometimes not inclosed at all or inclosed by walls . Ancestor wor- shipers have had a tendency to make their tombs places devoted to their religion . Sacred trees and fountains ...
... trees , holy altars , holy temples , and holy areas of land sometimes not inclosed at all or inclosed by walls . Ancestor wor- shipers have had a tendency to make their tombs places devoted to their religion . Sacred trees and fountains ...
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Page 67 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 178 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 150 - What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites : for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 116 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 178 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 104 - When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 161 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 72 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 181 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 195 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.