The Pictorial Bible: Genesis-JoshuaW. and R. Chambers, 1855 |
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... feet , or glide along the surface of the soil , serpents , annelides , & c . Lastly , we come to V. DN adam , MAN , standing alone in his intellectual supremacy . 29. Behold , I have given you every herb , ' & c . - Plants and fruits ...
... feet , or glide along the surface of the soil , serpents , annelides , & c . Lastly , we come to V. DN adam , MAN , standing alone in his intellectual supremacy . 29. Behold , I have given you every herb , ' & c . - Plants and fruits ...
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... feet . Some writers add the geometrical cubit of nine feet . Shuckford says we must take the common or shortest cubit as that for the ark ; and Dr. Hales , following this advice , obtains the following result : It must have been of the ...
... feet . Some writers add the geometrical cubit of nine feet . Shuckford says we must take the common or shortest cubit as that for the ark ; and Dr. Hales , following this advice , obtains the following result : It must have been of the ...
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... feet above the level of the sea , and 13,350 above the plains of the river Aras ( Araxes ) , and is always covered with snow , as indeed is the whole mountain for three or four months in the year . It is a very grand object , being not ...
... feet above the level of the sea , and 13,350 above the plains of the river Aras ( Araxes ) , and is always covered with snow , as indeed is the whole mountain for three or four months in the year . It is a very grand object , being not ...
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... feet broad by 160 in depth . The vaulting of this hall is broken at the back , and there is a large fissure about 15 feet from the entrance . It is called Tuuk Kesra , or the arch of Khosroes , ' and is believed to have been the palace ...
... feet broad by 160 in depth . The vaulting of this hall is broken at the back , and there is a large fissure about 15 feet from the entrance . It is called Tuuk Kesra , or the arch of Khosroes , ' and is believed to have been the palace ...
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... feet high , on a base of 500 feet on each side , we have a structure as high as the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids , but standing on a much narrower base ; as the dimensions of the pyramid may ( on an ap- proximation from various ...
... feet high , on a base of 500 feet on each side , we have a structure as high as the greatest of the Egyptian pyramids , but standing on a much narrower base ; as the dimensions of the pyramid may ( on an ap- proximation from various ...
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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.