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... covered . " * The Oriental customs of to - day are , mainly , the same as those of ancient times . It is said by a recent writer that " the Classical world has passed away . We must reproduce it if we wish to see it as it was . " While ...
... covered . " * The Oriental customs of to - day are , mainly , the same as those of ancient times . It is said by a recent writer that " the Classical world has passed away . We must reproduce it if we wish to see it as it was . " While ...
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... covered with strange characters have been brought to light ; by patient labor and wonderful ingenuity these characters have been deciphered , and made to tell the secrets which for ages they had kept concealed . The tombs of Egypt , the ...
... covered with strange characters have been brought to light ; by patient labor and wonderful ingenuity these characters have been deciphered , and made to tell the secrets which for ages they had kept concealed . The tombs of Egypt , the ...
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... covering to walls of sun - dried brick . The finest quality of bricks was of a yellow color , resembling our fire- bricks ; another very hard kind was of a dark blue ; the commoner and coarser sorts were pink or red . Amid the ruins of ...
... covering to walls of sun - dried brick . The finest quality of bricks was of a yellow color , resembling our fire- bricks ; another very hard kind was of a dark blue ; the commoner and coarser sorts were pink or red . Amid the ruins of ...
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... covered herself . 1. The custom of vailing the face of women , now so common in the East , was not general in the days of the patriarchs , nor for a long time after . The women usually appeared in public with faces exposed . Much of the ...
... covered herself . 1. The custom of vailing the face of women , now so common in the East , was not general in the days of the patriarchs , nor for a long time after . The women usually appeared in public with faces exposed . Much of the ...
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... covered with sand , so as to conceal them from the eye of an enemy . 44. - STRIFE AT WELLS . XXVI , 20. The herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herd- men , saying , The water is ours . These contests between rival herdmen for the ...
... covered with sand , so as to conceal them from the eye of an enemy . 44. - STRIFE AT WELLS . XXVI , 20. The herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herd- men , saying , The water is ours . These contests between rival herdmen for the ...
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aliyah allusion altar ancient Egyptians asherah Assyrian Baal Bible called camels ceremonies Chron court covered cubits custom customary Deut divination East Egypt ephod Exod Ezek fastened father feast feet garments gate Gesenius give gold Greeks hand head heathen Hebrews Holy idol idolatrous illustration images Israelites Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John John xix Kings Lord Luke Maimonides Mark means mentioned mode mourning Nazarite Nisroch note on Gen note on Matt offered Oriental ornamented Palestine passage Passover Persians Pharisees priests probably prophet Prov referred rendered represented Romans roof sacrifice Sadducees says servant shekel silver Solomon Solomon's Temple sometimes stone supposed synagogue Tabernacle temple tent teraphim thee Thou shalt unto verse viii wall wine women wood word worship xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi xxvii