The Pictorial Bible: Genesis-JoshuaW. and R. Chambers, 1855 |
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... chapters of Genesis are without number ; and it would be useless to enumerate even the chief of them without such ... CHAPTER I. 1 The creation of heaven and earth , 3 of the light , 6 of the firmament , 9 of the earth separated from ...
... chapters of Genesis are without number ; and it would be useless to enumerate even the chief of them without such ... CHAPTER I. 1 The creation of heaven and earth , 3 of the light , 6 of the firmament , 9 of the earth separated from ...
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... chapter , as the term day ' is to its natural meaning by the re- curring phrase of morning and evening , ' as if with the very object of excluding any such signification , we cannot but fear that the latter explanation does considerable ...
... chapter , as the term day ' is to its natural meaning by the re- curring phrase of morning and evening , ' as if with the very object of excluding any such signification , we cannot but fear that the latter explanation does considerable ...
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... CHAPTER V. 1 The genealogy , age , and death of the patriarchs from Adam unto Noah . 24 The godliness and translation of Enoch . THIS is the ' book of the generations of Adam . In the day that God created man , in the likeness of God ...
... CHAPTER V. 1 The genealogy , age , and death of the patriarchs from Adam unto Noah . 24 The godliness and translation of Enoch . THIS is the ' book of the generations of Adam . In the day that God created man , in the likeness of God ...
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... chapters which relate to the Antediluvian period , it may be well to remark that it offers no trace of savage life ... CHAPTER VII . 1 Noah with his family and the living creatures enter into the ark . 17 The beginning , increase , and ...
... chapters which relate to the Antediluvian period , it may be well to remark that it offers no trace of savage life ... CHAPTER VII . 1 Noah with his family and the living creatures enter into the ark . 17 The beginning , increase , and ...
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... chapter , barren as it may seem to common readers , is to those who search into the origin and anti- quities of nations , an ancient fragment of the deepest interest , which claims and has obtained the most profound and anxious ...
... chapter , barren as it may seem to common readers , is to those who search into the origin and anti- quities of nations , an ancient fragment of the deepest interest , which claims and has obtained the most profound and anxious ...
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Aaron Abraham according altar ancient animal appear Arabian Arabs Balaam beast Bedouins behold blessed blood bread brethren brought bullock burnt offering called camels Canaan cattle Chap CHAPTER children of Israel colour commanded congregation cubits daughter Deut earth East Edom Egypt Egyptians ephod Esau Exod father fire flesh flocks goats gold hand hath heave offering Hebrew holy Isaac Israelites Jacob Jews Joseph king Laban lamb land of Egypt leprosy Levites LORD spake unto meat offering mentioned Moses mountains Palestine Pentateuch Persia person Pharaoh present priest probably rendered river sacred sacrifice saying Scripture seems Septuagint servants shalt thou shekels shew shittim wood Sinai sons spake unto Moses stone tabernacle temple tent tenth deals thereof thing thou shalt tion took tribe unclean unto the LORD Verse vessels wife word writers
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Page 15 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 9 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 12 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 72 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 9 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 172 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...
Page 193 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 203 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 220 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 34 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.