Bible stories, from the Creation to the conquest of CanaanJoseph Thomas, 1840 - 204 pages |
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... scattered upon the earth . Cain muttered awful words against the element , which had destroyed his offering . But Abel enjoined him to pray , in order to avert Jehovah's anger . " I will not pray , " said Cain , 28 BIBLE STORIES .
... scattered upon the earth . Cain muttered awful words against the element , which had destroyed his offering . But Abel enjoined him to pray , in order to avert Jehovah's anger . " I will not pray , " said Cain , 28 BIBLE STORIES .
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... Jehovah , for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and , behold , the Almighty will destroy them with the earth . " This terrible denunciation of Divine displeasure was not made to one of callous heart . The good are always ...
... Jehovah , for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and , behold , the Almighty will destroy them with the earth . " This terrible denunciation of Divine displeasure was not made to one of callous heart . The good are always ...
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... Jehovah had said should be saved alive in the day of the great flood . It was in the six hundredth year of Noah's life , in the second month , the seventeenth day of the month , that the doors were closed by an angel upon the eight ...
... Jehovah had said should be saved alive in the day of the great flood . It was in the six hundredth year of Noah's life , in the second month , the seventeenth day of the month , that the doors were closed by an angel upon the eight ...
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... Jehovah beheld the gratitude of his servants , and was pleased with their devotion , and heard their prayer ; and He said , " I will not curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his ...
... Jehovah beheld the gratitude of his servants , and was pleased with their devotion , and heard their prayer ; and He said , " I will not curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his ...
Page 47
... Jehovah , who can read what passes in the heart and mind of man , knew that his servant whom he had saved was rendering truer and worthier homage for his beneficence than mere lip - service . So the Lord blessed THE DELUGE . 47.
... Jehovah , who can read what passes in the heart and mind of man , knew that his servant whom he had saved was rendering truer and worthier homage for his beneficence than mere lip - service . So the Lord blessed THE DELUGE . 47.
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Page 185 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 49 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 50 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 40 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female ; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 17 - And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Page 186 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 46 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 64 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I GENESIS 14 will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 17 - 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 : 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 109 - And behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.