Readings from Holy scripture [Old Testament] by the author of Tales of Kirkbeck, etcJoseph Masters, 1858 |
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... wife . Her name was Eve , which means , " the mother of all living . " What a happy life these two people lived ! There was nothing to disturb them , nor make them uneasy ; they were never ill nor in want of anything but what they had ...
... wife . Her name was Eve , which means , " the mother of all living . " What a happy life these two people lived ! There was nothing to disturb them , nor make them uneasy ; they were never ill nor in want of anything but what they had ...
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... wife , and his three sons , Shem , Ham , and Japhet , and their wives , and they all made ready to enter into the ark . The sky was still bright and clear , the sun shone as usual ; day and night came round just as they always did , and ...
... wife , and his three sons , Shem , Ham , and Japhet , and their wives , and they all made ready to enter into the ark . The sky was still bright and clear , the sun shone as usual ; day and night came round just as they always did , and ...
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... wife and their children . GOD was pleased to accept Noah's heart service , and in an- swer to the prayer offered at that altar , He said He would no more curse the ground , nor de- stroy all things living ; but that so long as the world ...
... wife and their children . GOD was pleased to accept Noah's heart service , and in an- swer to the prayer offered at that altar , He said He would no more curse the ground , nor de- stroy all things living ; but that so long as the world ...
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... wife called Sarai , but he had no child . GOD , Who sees men's hearts , saw that Abram's was a very faithful heart , and He chose him to be His friend ( Isa . xli . 8. ) But when God loves any man , He for the most part tries him very ...
... wife called Sarai , but he had no child . GOD , Who sees men's hearts , saw that Abram's was a very faithful heart , and He chose him to be His friend ( Isa . xli . 8. ) But when God loves any man , He for the most part tries him very ...
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... wife , and his nephew Lot , and his servants , who were very numerous ( many being almost like his own children , as they were born in his house ) and they departed , and came , led by GoD , into the land of Canaan . At this time all ...
... wife , and his nephew Lot , and his servants , who were very numerous ( many being almost like his own children , as they were born in his house ) and they departed , and came , led by GoD , into the land of Canaan . At this time all ...
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Page 199 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, C 261 3 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 189 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 246 - Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 130 - 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...
Page 20 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 39 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 240 - God is not a man, that he should lie ; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 251 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them.
Page 133 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Page 78 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.