A Complete History of the Holy Bible: As Contained in the Old and New Testaments ; Including Also the Ocurrences of Four Hundred Years from the Last of the Prophets to the Birth of Christ, and the Life of Our Blessed Saviour and His Apostles, &c with Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Practical and Devotional, Volume 1W.W. Woodward, 1807 - Bible |
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... Jacob hid the strange gods which his ser- vants kept ; and it was likewise under it that Deborah , Rebecca's nurse , was bu- ried , Gen. xxxv . 4 , 8. It was also under it that Joshua set up a great stone , Jo- shua , xxiv . 26. and ...
... Jacob hid the strange gods which his ser- vants kept ; and it was likewise under it that Deborah , Rebecca's nurse , was bu- ried , Gen. xxxv . 4 , 8. It was also under it that Joshua set up a great stone , Jo- shua , xxiv . 26. and ...
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... Jacob and his son Joseph , Gen. xlvii . 29. This ceremony denoted subjection , as some suppose ; others think that it refers to the ordinance of circumcision ; while some , with more probability , con- ceive that it has a relation to ...
... Jacob and his son Joseph , Gen. xlvii . 29. This ceremony denoted subjection , as some suppose ; others think that it refers to the ordinance of circumcision ; while some , with more probability , con- ceive that it has a relation to ...
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... Jacob found his cousin Rachel following and watering her father Laban's sheep ; and some ages after that , the seven daughters of Jethro , who was a prince as well as a priest of Midian , kept their father's flocks , and used to draw ...
... Jacob found his cousin Rachel following and watering her father Laban's sheep ; and some ages after that , the seven daughters of Jethro , who was a prince as well as a priest of Midian , kept their father's flocks , and used to draw ...
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... Jacob followed him so close , that he took hold of his heel with his hand . The boys growing up , Esau delighted alto- gether in the fields , being addicted to hunting ; and be- cause he furnished his father with venison , a sort of ...
... Jacob followed him so close , that he took hold of his heel with his hand . The boys growing up , Esau delighted alto- gether in the fields , being addicted to hunting ; and be- cause he furnished his father with venison , a sort of ...
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... Jacob being grown to man's estate , it hap- pened one day that Esau having fatigued himself ex- tremely in the field , came fainting to Jacob , who at that very time had just made some pottage of lentils , which was of a red colour ...
... Jacob being grown to man's estate , it hap- pened one day that Esau having fatigued himself ex- tremely in the field , came fainting to Jacob , who at that very time had just made some pottage of lentils , which was of a red colour ...
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Page 24 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 307 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 79 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 29 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 515 - Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
Page 43 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 212 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page 166 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 176 - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Page 83 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.