Notes on All the Books of Scripture: For the Use of the Pulpit and Private Families, Volume 1A. Kennedy, 1803 - Bible |
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... . Time appears to have been divided into periods of feven days by all antient nations , long before the age of Mofes . Both the Egyptians and the Hindoos made A 4 ufe * ufe of it . Thofe nations gave the names of CHAP . II . GENESIS.
... . Time appears to have been divided into periods of feven days by all antient nations , long before the age of Mofes . Both the Egyptians and the Hindoos made A 4 ufe * ufe of it . Thofe nations gave the names of CHAP . II . GENESIS.
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... the flood ; and the reason why Noah was directed to take feven pairs of each of thefe might be that they might ferve for food in the ark as well as for facrificing , and a better provifion B 2 as CHAP . VI . 19 GENESIS .
... the flood ; and the reason why Noah was directed to take feven pairs of each of thefe might be that they might ferve for food in the ark as well as for facrificing , and a better provifion B 2 as CHAP . VI . 19 GENESIS .
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... feven lambs having been given as a memorial of his right to the well . The Philiftines were not of the feven nations of Canaan- ites that were devoted to deftruction . Accordingly they remained in the country , and were a long time ...
... feven lambs having been given as a memorial of his right to the well . The Philiftines were not of the feven nations of Canaan- ites that were devoted to deftruction . Accordingly they remained in the country , and were a long time ...
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... feven years old . 4. A blind old man , having but few enjoyments , may be excused for his attachment to thofe that remain to him . But his eating this food , whatever it was , could have no natural connection with the blefling he had to ...
... feven years old . 4. A blind old man , having but few enjoyments , may be excused for his attachment to thofe that remain to him . But his eating this food , whatever it was , could have no natural connection with the blefling he had to ...
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... feven years fervice feems to have been a great deal to give , efpecially by a relation . 20. Mr. Halhed , in the Preface to the code of Gen. too laws , fays , that with the Hindoos it is criminal for a man to give his younger daughter ...
... feven years fervice feems to have been a great deal to give , efpecially by a relation . 20. Mr. Halhed , in the Preface to the code of Gen. too laws , fays , that with the Hindoos it is criminal for a man to give his younger daughter ...
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Page 39 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 478 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer...
Page 39 - Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth : and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt ; and serve ye the Lord.
Page 355 - And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights ; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Page 446 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Page 152 - Woe unto us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? These are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
Page 528 - Thou shalt not come hither ; for the blind and the lame shall keep thee off, by saying, David shall not come hither. But David took the strong hold of Sion, which is the city of David. And David said on that day, Whosoever (first...
Page 373 - the author of the institutions civil or religious that bear his name ; and that in framing them he borrowed much from the Egyptians or other ancient nations, must never have compared them togther, otherwise they could not but have perceived many circumstances in which they differed most essentially from them all...
Page 354 - Jerusalem; another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem; and the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father's mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
Page 507 - On his return from London, a portrait was taken of him, which is preserved in the library of Brazen-nose College, at Oxford; and Dr.