Bible readings selected from the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua, by J.A. CrossJohn Adam Cross 1885 |
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Abimelech Abram Amalek Amorites Balaam Balak beast behold bread bring brought camels Canaanites cattle Chedorlaomer children of Israel commanded congregation covenant daughters destroy dream earth Edom Egyptians Esau EXODUS eyes face flesh flocks GENESIS Gerar hearkened heaven Hittites Hivites Isaac Jacob Jebusites Jordan Joshua king Laban land of Canaan land of Egypt land of Goshen lest LORD hath LORD said unto LORD spake unto LORD thy Moab Moses said unto mount Nahor Noah NUMBERS pass Perizzites Pharaoh pray thee Rachel Rebekah returned unto Sarah say unto sent seven shalt thou shewed side Jordan Sihon smote Sodom sons spake unto Moses speak unto Terah thereof thing thou art thou hast thou shalt thy father thy seed thy servants took tribe of Manasseh unto Abraham unto Joseph unto Pharaoh unto the LORD unto thee unto thy Wherefore wife wilderness
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Page 2 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : And God sa~\v that it was good...
Page 4 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 143 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God : and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Page 5 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 130 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 145 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 221 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 7 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it...
Page 21 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 94 - Judah is a lion's whelp : From the prey, my son, thou art gone up : He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.