 | English literature - 1801 - 588 pages
...Epiphany, he expired without a groan or a figh. " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghoft."' In the very imperfeft {ketch here given of this truly extraordinary mm, mention is made of fome of... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1801 - 640 pages
...OF GATHERING UP THE FEET OF THE DYING ? " And when Jacob had made an end of command*' ing his fons, HE GATHERED up HIS FEET " INTO THE BED, and yielded up the " ghoftf/;." MANY other correfponding circumftances may be traced in Herodotus. Thus when he enumerates... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,... | |
 | 1828
...even at the door — a fearful change for the ungodly, a solemn change for all. We read, "When Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people," breathing his placid soul into the bosom of Him he loved.... | |
 | 1803 - 488 pages
...bury him, in the burying place of his fathers, and when he had made an end of commanding his fons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghofl, and tuas gathered to his pe>>ple.\ After which we have an account of the tranfportation of his... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 444 pages
...purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of 33 Heth. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people, to his pious anccs, tors in another world. Thus peaceful and... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 446 pages
...[is] therein [was] from the children of 33 l leih. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding bis sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the • ghost, and was gathered unto his people, to his pious oncee, tore in another world. Thus peaceful... | |
 | 1806 - 508 pages
...purchase of the Jield, and of the cave, that is therein, was from the children of Heth. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Be it remarked, by the bye, that in chap, xlviii. ver. 2,... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 452 pages
...otherwise are we to understand the Scripture phrase OF GATHERING UP THE FEET OF THE DYING ? "And when Jacob had made "an end of commanding his sons, .HE GATHERED UP HIS " FEET INTO THE BED, and yielded up the ghost. || Many other corresponding circumstances may be traced in Herodotus. Thus when he enumerates... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 388 pages
...— Often did I drive t« rid are paftured by 5000 ftieep and 1500 lambs, yield the ghod. Shak — He gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghoft. Gen, 8. To refign ; to give up : fometimes with a particle, as up or over — He did not yield over to old... | |
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 
