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Page 164 - Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it : but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know : for there is none to redeem it beside thee ; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Page 163 - ... kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth : lie down until the morning.
Page 169 - And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Page 159 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty...
Page 163 - And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Page 160 - Hearest thou not my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens : let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them : have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Page 159 - And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers : and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Page 157 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 158 - Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb that they may be your husbands?
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| Title | Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1 Sketches of the History of Man, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Publisher | W. Creech, 1807 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2006 |
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