Abraham: His Life and TimesJames Nisbet et Company, 1886 - 179 páginas |
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... passed into the hands of the Semitic Casdim " ( Chaldees ) before this time . Of course , this adjunct , Casdim , does not appertain to the original name , but is an explanation added by the Hebrew narrator . The modern name of this ...
... passed into the hands of the Semitic Casdim " ( Chaldees ) before this time . Of course , this adjunct , Casdim , does not appertain to the original name , but is an explanation added by the Hebrew narrator . The modern name of this ...
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... passed bore witness to the decay of piety and of the knowledge of God . Some new intervention was required . To avert this growing degeneracy God designed to choose out a family which should keep alive true religion , be the receptacle ...
... passed bore witness to the decay of piety and of the knowledge of God . Some new intervention was required . To avert this growing degeneracy God designed to choose out a family which should keep alive true religion , be the receptacle ...
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... passed it at some fifteen miles ' distance . Sepharvaim , afterwards named Sippara , and now Mosaib , would next be reached , about twenty miles from Babylon . Here , the legend tells , Xisuthrus buried the records of the antediluvian ...
... passed it at some fifteen miles ' distance . Sepharvaim , afterwards named Sippara , and now Mosaib , would next be reached , about twenty miles from Babylon . Here , the legend tells , Xisuthrus buried the records of the antediluvian ...
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... passed . Next they would enter upon a high plateau , far above the Euphrates , which , no longer calm and sluggish as in Lower Chaldæa , where it falls only three inches in the mile , now rushed along with strong current , battling with ...
... passed . Next they would enter upon a high plateau , far above the Euphrates , which , no longer calm and sluggish as in Lower Chaldæa , where it falls only three inches in the mile , now rushed along with strong current , battling with ...
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... passed in the afternoon , coming from Oorfa ; the well of this , the city of Nahor , at the time of the evening , the time that women go out to draw water . ' There was a group of them , filling no longer their pitchers - since the ...
... passed in the afternoon , coming from Oorfa ; the well of this , the city of Nahor , at the time of the evening , the time that women go out to draw water . ' There was a group of them , filling no longer their pitchers - since the ...
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Abimelech Abraham Abram Amorites ancient angels Babylonia Beersheba blessing Book of Jubilees called Canaan Canaanites Chaldæa chap character Chedorlaomer child Christ Christian covenant Damascus daughter dead descendants Divine doubtless dwelt earth Egypt Elamite Eliezer Euphrates faith father favour feet God's Hagar hand Haran heaven Hebrew Hebron heir hills Hittites Holy honour hundred inhabitants inscriptions Isaac Ishmael Israel Israelites Jacob Jehovah Jewish Jordan Josephus Josephus Antiq Keturah king land live Lord Machpelah Mamre Melchizedek miles moral Moses mother Nahor nations natural neighbourhood obedience offered Palestine patriarch plain possession posterity priest probably promise Rawlinson Rebekah received regarded revelation righteous sacrifice Sarah Sarai says Scripture seed seems Semitic Septuagint servant Shechem Sodom sojourn soul spot stranger supposed temple tent Terah thee thou town tradition transaction tribes true religion truth unto valley wife word worship