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Abimelech Abraham afterwards Amalekites ancient angel appears birth blessed book of Genesis brother Canaan Chaldee chap chapter character Christology circumstances clause Comp Compare connexion consequently considered creation Dathe denote descendants Deut divine Drechsler earth Egypt Egyptian Elohim employed Esau evident express fact father favor follows former Gesenius give heaven Hebrew Hengstenberg Hittite implied intended interpretation intimate Isaac Ishmael Israel Israelites Jacob Japheth Jehovah Jewish Joseph Judah king land language latter literal Lord Maimonides meaning mentioned Mesopotamia Moses narrative nations nature Noah opinion original patriarch Pentateuch phrase portion posterity Potiphar probably promise Rashi reader reason reference remarks respecting Rosenmüller sabbath Samaritan Pentateuch scripture sense Septuagint Shechem sons supposed supposition Syriac Targum term thee thou tion translation tribe ubi sup unto usage verse Vulgate whole word xviii
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Page 39 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Page 255 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 267 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 151 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 269 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Page 177 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 149 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 154 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbathday.
Page 143 - I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Page 156 - These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.