Bible stories, from the Creation to the conquest of CanaanJoseph Thomas, 1840 - 204 pages |
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... heart , he sought to provoke God against all that He had made , and to turn into bitterness and regret the pleasure of the Creator in the happiness of which He had been the author . Now Satan was free to roam about THE CREATION AND FALL ...
... heart , he sought to provoke God against all that He had made , and to turn into bitterness and regret the pleasure of the Creator in the happiness of which He had been the author . Now Satan was free to roam about THE CREATION AND FALL ...
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... heart of the evil one as he paused to look around upon the happy spot into which he had obtruded ; but if so , it quickly passed away . Through a long and verdant alley , leading from the lake already described , he quickly descried the ...
... heart of the evil one as he paused to look around upon the happy spot into which he had obtruded ; but if so , it quickly passed away . Through a long and verdant alley , leading from the lake already described , he quickly descried the ...
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... heart and unblushing brow , to more daring and more criminal proposals . The seeds of ill are not slow of growth . Ere many days had passed from this first discourse with the evil spirit , Eve , who had pondered upon the words of the ...
... heart and unblushing brow , to more daring and more criminal proposals . The seeds of ill are not slow of growth . Ere many days had passed from this first discourse with the evil spirit , Eve , who had pondered upon the words of the ...
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... unhappy birth . It was with anguish and heaviness of heart his mother now began to look upon her offspring , dreading , as she did , accu- mulated evil from the violent passions and ungovernable mind which CAIN AND ABEL . 23.
... unhappy birth . It was with anguish and heaviness of heart his mother now began to look upon her offspring , dreading , as she did , accu- mulated evil from the violent passions and ungovernable mind which CAIN AND ABEL . 23.
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... heart than the world had then known , With the first burst of sunlight over the hills , Abel was at the door of his brother's hut , to awake and lead him forth to fulfil his promise . Cain was in deep but disturbed sleep , and marks of ...
... heart than the world had then known , With the first burst of sunlight over the hills , Abel was at the door of his brother's hut , to awake and lead him forth to fulfil his promise . Cain was in deep but disturbed sleep , and marks of ...
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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.