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... Dress of the Orientals • page 1 CHAP . V. From the Meals and Public Entertainments of the East . 44 CHAP . VI . From the Marriage Ceremonies of the East 124 CHAP . VII . From the Contracts and Covenants of East- ern Nations • 170 CHAP ...
... Dress of the Orientals • page 1 CHAP . V. From the Meals and Public Entertainments of the East . 44 CHAP . VI . From the Marriage Ceremonies of the East 124 CHAP . VII . From the Contracts and Covenants of East- ern Nations • 170 CHAP ...
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... DRESS OF THE ORIENTALS . Dress of the orientals has undergone almost no change . - Materials of which it was manufactured - Fine linen - Sackcloth of hair - Silk and rich cloth . -Colours most in use . - Nobles and courtiers dressed in ...
... DRESS OF THE ORIENTALS . Dress of the orientals has undergone almost no change . - Materials of which it was manufactured - Fine linen - Sackcloth of hair - Silk and rich cloth . -Colours most in use . - Nobles and courtiers dressed in ...
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... dress of persons in affliction . In Egypt and Syria , they wore also fine linen , cotton , and byssus , probably fine muslin from India , in Hebrew ( p ) bouts , the finest cloth known to the ancients . In Canaan , persons of ...
... dress of persons in affliction . In Egypt and Syria , they wore also fine linen , cotton , and byssus , probably fine muslin from India , in Hebrew ( p ) bouts , the finest cloth known to the ancients . In Canaan , persons of ...
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... dress of the high priest , was made all of blue ; it was a prominent colour in the sumptuous hangings of the ... dress of the poor and the needy . In modern times , the whole dress of an Arabian female of low station , consists of ...
... dress of the high priest , was made all of blue ; it was a prominent colour in the sumptuous hangings of the ... dress of the poor and the needy . In modern times , the whole dress of an Arabian female of low station , consists of ...
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... dresses , when the arm is lifted up , expose its whole length : To this circumstance , the prophet Isaiah refers : " To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed " -uncovered - Who observes that he is about to exert the arm of his power ...
... dresses , when the arm is lifted up , expose its whole length : To this circumstance , the prophet Isaiah refers : " To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed " -uncovered - Who observes that he is about to exert the arm of his power ...
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Page 415 - Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 49 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 123 - And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in,...
Page 93 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Page 157 - Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people : and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Page 27 - 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 orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 419 - And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee...
Page 453 - And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth ? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
Page 97 - And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest Me no water for My feet : but she hath washed My feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 256 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.