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... gives us of the " oxen ploughing , " clearly prove , that the person who invented the plough and instructed the ox , existed long before the founders of the Grecian states . We may , with the page of inspiration for our guide , trace ...
... gives us of the " oxen ploughing , " clearly prove , that the person who invented the plough and instructed the ox , existed long before the founders of the Grecian states . We may , with the page of inspiration for our guide , trace ...
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... Give ye ear and hear my voice ; hearken and hear my speech . Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof , doth he not cast abroad the fitches and ...
... Give ye ear and hear my voice ; hearken and hear my speech . Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof , doth he not cast abroad the fitches and ...
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... give additional importance to the law in which Moses commands , that when a sacrifice of peace offerings should be made by fire unto the Lord , the fat which was reserved as sacred to God , and particularly the whole rump or tail taken ...
... give additional importance to the law in which Moses commands , that when a sacrifice of peace offerings should be made by fire unto the Lord , the fat which was reserved as sacred to God , and particularly the whole rump or tail taken ...
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... gives the allusion a different turn . The amiableness of the church in the exemplary conversation of true believers , is displayed by a copious growth of hair , which flows down from the parted forelock in decent curls . Thy hair is as ...
... gives the allusion a different turn . The amiableness of the church in the exemplary conversation of true believers , is displayed by a copious growth of hair , which flows down from the parted forelock in decent curls . Thy hair is as ...
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... give them a strong proof of his acceptance , in utterly discomfiting their enemies , by a furious tempest of thunder and lightning . If , therefore , a sucking kid might be offered in sacrifice to God , it might be used as food by his ...
... give them a strong proof of his acceptance , in utterly discomfiting their enemies , by a furious tempest of thunder and lightning . If , therefore , a sucking kid might be offered in sacrifice to God , it might be used as food by his ...
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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.