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... Egyptians considered themselves ceremonially defiled if they ate with any strangers . " • The second passage is Gen. xlvi . 34. Joseph is telling his brethren how to conduct themselves when introduced to the king of Egypt ; and he ...
... Egyptians considered themselves ceremonially defiled if they ate with any strangers . " • The second passage is Gen. xlvi . 34. Joseph is telling his brethren how to conduct themselves when introduced to the king of Egypt ; and he ...
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... can only be considered as descriptive , and not predictive . It will here be necessary to consider the 16 ACCOMMODATION tion of Sir Sidney Smith , it offered to the arms of Buonaparte . After that famous siege the fortifications ...
... can only be considered as descriptive , and not predictive . It will here be necessary to consider the 16 ACCOMMODATION tion of Sir Sidney Smith , it offered to the arms of Buonaparte . After that famous siege the fortifications ...
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According to the Oriental notion developed in the article ABSALOM , Adonijah might have considered his claim superior to that of his eldest brother Ammon , who is supposed to have been born while his father was in a private station ...
According to the Oriental notion developed in the article ABSALOM , Adonijah might have considered his claim superior to that of his eldest brother Ammon , who is supposed to have been born while his father was in a private station ...
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Thus Sarah gave her handmaid Hagar to Abraham ; and the son that was born , Ishmael , appears to have been considered as her son as well as Abraham's , until Isaac was born . In like manner Rachel , having no children , gave her ...
Thus Sarah gave her handmaid Hagar to Abraham ; and the son that was born , Ishmael , appears to have been considered as her son as well as Abraham's , until Isaac was born . In like manner Rachel , having no children , gave her ...
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Adultery was thus considered a great social wrong , against which society protected itself by much severer penalties than attended an unchaste act not involving the same contingencies . It will be seen that this Oriental limitation of ...
Adultery was thus considered a great social wrong , against which society protected itself by much severer penalties than attended an unchaste act not involving the same contingencies . It will be seen that this Oriental limitation of ...
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Page 302 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 370 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Page 302 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 96 - ... of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 228 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Page 444 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 26 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 278 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 324 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 282 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger Work |
| Author | John Kitto |
| Publisher | Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 800 pages |
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