Readings from the Old Testament, arranged with notes, by J.G. Wenham, Volume 1John George Wenham 1875 |
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... carried upon the waters . And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth : and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered . The * By the clean beasts was meant such as were fit for sacrifice or for food . Gen ...
... carried upon the waters . And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth : and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered . The * By the clean beasts was meant such as were fit for sacrifice or for food . Gen ...
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... carrying a bough of an olive tree , with green leaves , in her mouth . Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth . And he stayed yet other seven days : and he sent forth the dove , which returned not any more ...
... carrying a bough of an olive tree , with green leaves , in her mouth . Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth . And he stayed yet other seven days : and he sent forth the dove , which returned not any more ...
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... carry , for she said : I will not see the boy die and sitting over - against , she lifted up her voice and wept . And God heard the voice of the boy and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven , saying : What art thou doing , Agar ...
... carry , for she said : I will not see the boy die and sitting over - against , she lifted up her voice and wept . And God heard the voice of the boy and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven , saying : What art thou doing , Agar ...
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... carried in his hands fire and a sword . And as they two went on together , Isaac said to his father : My father . And he answered : What wilt thou , son ? Behold , saith he , fire and wood : where is the victim for the holocaust ? And ...
... carried in his hands fire and a sword . And as they two went on together , Isaac said to his father : My father . And he answered : What wilt thou , son ? Behold , saith he , fire and wood : where is the victim for the holocaust ? And ...
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... carrying something of all his goods with him , and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor . And when he had made the camels lie down without the town near a well of water in the evening , at the time when women ...
... carrying something of all his goods with him , and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor . And when he had made the camels lie down without the town near a well of water in the evening , at the time when women ...
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Page 12 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 141 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Page 136 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 96 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 133 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 62 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil...
Page 132 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak...
Page 93 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Page 96 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 83 - 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.