A Help to the Book of Genesis: On the Lesson System of Teaching: Containing the Text, with Explanations, Forming a Paraphrase, a Catechetical Exercise, and Practice Lessons, 1. köideJ. Leavitt, 1831 - 288 pages |
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Abel Abimelech Abra Abraham say Abraham's seed Abram Adam afraid altar angel beasts Beer-sheba Behold Bethuel beware birth-right blessed bring brother brought Cain camels Chedorlaomer circumcised commanded cursed daughters desire destroy drink duty dwell dwelt earth endeavour Ephron Esau Esau's evil father firmament flesh fowls gave Gerar give God's Hagar hand happened Haran hath heard heaven Heth Isaac say Ishmael Jacob Japheth kind king Laban LESSONS living Lord Mamre mercy Milcah mountain multiply Nahor never Noah obey ourselves Padan-aram parents Phichol plain pray prayer prosperity Rebekah sake Sarah Sarai savoury meat sent servant sinful Sodom Sodom and Gomorrah sons spake speak spoke strangers swear take a wife tent Terah thee thing thou shalt took tree ungodly unto Abraham Vale of Siddim venison voice waters Whither wicked wish woman worship Zoar
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Page 72 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 31 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 142 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 127 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Page 35 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 16 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 165 - And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver : behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
Page 47 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 57 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 69 - Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...