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...thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground." And his father said of Noah that he "shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of...our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed."34 Tacitus says of Germanic warriors: "Nor are they as easily persuaded to plough the earth...

...an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our...five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died....

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...lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our...because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. TO THE SONS OF JARED And...

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...an hundred and eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our...hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed (Genesis 5:28-29)." For Lamech, the sting of the curse was too sharp to bear. So we have the first...

...into focus in the name he gave his son Noah— "rest," "comfort," "consolation." "This same," he said, "shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of...because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed," or as it has been rendered, "This shall give us rest from the grievous toil and trouble." The evil...