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... live . I believe that the six days were six literal days . I know that some geologists have endeavored to prove that each day was not a literal day of twenty - four hours , but a vast geolog- ical period , as it is called . I do not ...
... live . I believe that the six days were six literal days . I know that some geologists have endeavored to prove that each day was not a literal day of twenty - four hours , but a vast geolog- ical period , as it is called . I do not ...
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... live in holiness and happiness for- God might have said , There is a river ; if you drink of that river you shall surely die . Or , There is a little inclosed ground ; if you enter that inclosure you shall surely die . It was meant ...
... live in holiness and happiness for- God might have said , There is a river ; if you drink of that river you shall surely die . Or , There is a little inclosed ground ; if you enter that inclosure you shall surely die . It was meant ...
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... live in , and that the last traces and remains of that gar- den are swept away . And you will recollect that this account by Moses was written between two and three thou- sand years after the facts recorded ; and Moses alludes , in the ...
... live in , and that the last traces and remains of that gar- den are swept away . And you will recollect that this account by Moses was written between two and three thou- sand years after the facts recorded ; and Moses alludes , in the ...
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... live forever . " This expression ought to be understood — if not literally , yet truly , interpreted- " Adam has made the attempt to become as one of us , to know good and evil ; and now , lest he put forth his hand , and , by taking ...
... live forever . " This expression ought to be understood — if not literally , yet truly , interpreted- " Adam has made the attempt to become as one of us , to know good and evil ; and now , lest he put forth his hand , and , by taking ...
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... lives of the patriarchs , the number of children that were born to them , and the fact of a death occurring only in four , five , or six hundred years , the calculation has been made , by those who are competent to do so , that the ...
... lives of the patriarchs , the number of children that were born to them , and the fact of a death occurring only in four , five , or six hundred years , the calculation has been made , by those who are competent to do so , that the ...
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Page 58 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 37 - And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Page 93 - 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.
Page 245 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 140 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Page 39 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 121 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 111 - 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 151 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 356 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.