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... Jehovah descended in terrible majesty , to deliver the law from the top of Sinai , to the friskings of a young calf : " He maketh them also to skip like a calf : Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn . " The prophet Jeremiah is ...
... Jehovah descended in terrible majesty , to deliver the law from the top of Sinai , to the friskings of a young calf : " He maketh them also to skip like a calf : Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn . " The prophet Jeremiah is ...
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... Jehovah commanded a red heifer to be offered as a kind of sin offering , to purify from certain le- gal defilements . The animal was killed , and then burnt without the camp , ( as the sin offering was upon the great day of atonement ) ...
... Jehovah commanded a red heifer to be offered as a kind of sin offering , to purify from certain le- gal defilements . The animal was killed , and then burnt without the camp , ( as the sin offering was upon the great day of atonement ) ...
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... Jehovah commanded a cow to be burnt , rather than a bullock ; and one perfectly red , because that colour was held in great abhorrence by the Egyptians , who fancied that Typhon , in their superstition the source of all evil , was of ...
... Jehovah commanded a cow to be burnt , rather than a bullock ; and one perfectly red , because that colour was held in great abhorrence by the Egyptians , who fancied that Typhon , in their superstition the source of all evil , was of ...
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... Jehovah promised to be- stow upon his ransomed people , and classed with the choi- cest viands : The father of the family in the parable , had nothing more delicious to set before his repentant son , than the fatted calf : " Therefore ...
... Jehovah promised to be- stow upon his ransomed people , and classed with the choi- cest viands : The father of the family in the parable , had nothing more delicious to set before his repentant son , than the fatted calf : " Therefore ...
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... Jehovah himself , who made , and who graciously takes care of oxen : " Every moving thing , " said he to Noah , " shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb , have I given you all things . " This grant was long afterwards confirmed ...
... Jehovah himself , who made , and who graciously takes care of oxen : " Every moving thing , " said he to Noah , " shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb , have I given you all things . " This grant was long afterwards confirmed ...
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Page 167 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, •** so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ' My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?
Page 32 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Page 271 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways : then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 547 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 272 - And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 17 - Therefore they shall come and • sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Page 59 - He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; He that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; He that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; He that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Page 434 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 150 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 504 - And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire ; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.