Scripture Biography for the Young: With Critical Illustrations and Practical RemarksAmerican Tract Society, 1839 |
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... hand might seize the little one , and plunge it into the waters of the Nile . It was a lovely child , ex- ceedingly fair and beautiful , winning by its early graces the warmest love of the parents , and of its young sister and brother ...
... hand might seize the little one , and plunge it into the waters of the Nile . It was a lovely child , ex- ceedingly fair and beautiful , winning by its early graces the warmest love of the parents , and of its young sister and brother ...
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... hands its parents , ( for this is now their only resource , ) would submissively leave it . The father , and sister and brother , give it the last em- brace ; and its innocent smile , happy yet and fear- less while seeing its wonted ...
... hands its parents , ( for this is now their only resource , ) would submissively leave it . The father , and sister and brother , give it the last em- brace ; and its innocent smile , happy yet and fear- less while seeing its wonted ...
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... his purposes . Its life was sacred ; and before that life should close , this infant in the ark of bul- rushes would become the deliverer of its own kin- dred and people . How safe it is , to be in the hands 18 LIFE OF MOSES .
... his purposes . Its life was sacred ; and before that life should close , this infant in the ark of bul- rushes would become the deliverer of its own kin- dred and people . How safe it is , to be in the hands 18 LIFE OF MOSES .
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... hands of God . There we should submissively and calmly leave ourselves and all who are dear to us . When we have done our duty ; -when we have used all the means that God has placed within our reach , to extricate our- selves or friends ...
... hands of God . There we should submissively and calmly leave ourselves and all who are dear to us . When we have done our duty ; -when we have used all the means that God has placed within our reach , to extricate our- selves or friends ...
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... hand - the sentence of death hanging over him — to be laid down on the banks of the Nile . He goes now , not as he then did , to find a solitary and precarious resting - place amid the flags that border its stream , where the ruthless ...
... hand - the sentence of death hanging over him — to be laid down on the banks of the Nile . He goes now , not as he then did , to find a solitary and precarious resting - place amid the flags that border its stream , where the ruthless ...
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Page 49 - And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Page 138 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 147 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 133 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 49 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 57 - Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Page 90 - Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord : behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink ; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.
Page 130 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 113 - Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Page 122 - And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.