Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Հատոր 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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Արդյունքներ 48–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 3
... . 7. There builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him . ] The patriarchs took care to preserve the memory of considerable events by set- ting up altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments GENESIS . 3.
... . 7. There builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him . ] The patriarchs took care to preserve the memory of considerable events by set- ting up altars and pillars , and other lasting monuments GENESIS . 3.
Էջ 6
... took each other by the hand , and their thumbs being hard tied together , they pricked them , when the blood was forced to the extreme parts , and each party licked it . This was accounted a mysterious covenant , being made sacred by ...
... took each other by the hand , and their thumbs being hard tied together , they pricked them , when the blood was forced to the extreme parts , and each party licked it . This was accounted a mysterious covenant , being made sacred by ...
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... took her , and falling upon her , wrapped her body in a sheet of nitro - sulphureous matter , which congealed into a crust as hard as stone , and made her appear like a pillar of salt , her body being , as it were , candied in it ...
... took her , and falling upon her , wrapped her body in a sheet of nitro - sulphureous matter , which congealed into a crust as hard as stone , and made her appear like a pillar of salt , her body being , as it were , candied in it ...
Էջ 11
... took a golden ear - ring of half a shekel weight , and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight , of gold . ] The weight of the ornaments put upon Rebekah appears extraordinary . But Chardin assures us , that even heavier were ...
... took a golden ear - ring of half a shekel weight , and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight , of gold . ] The weight of the ornaments put upon Rebekah appears extraordinary . But Chardin assures us , that even heavier were ...
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... took the arm of that young man , and put it round his own neck , as a mark of his dependance on him , and that he acknow- ledged him for his general and chief . " " When a debtor became insolvent , he gave himself up to his creditor as ...
... took the arm of that young man , and put it round his own neck , as a mark of his dependance on him , and that he acknow- ledged him for his general and chief . " " When a debtor became insolvent , he gave himself up to his creditor as ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1807 |
Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1807 |
Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1807 |
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Aleppo Alex alludes allusion altar amongst ancient appears Arabs blessing blood bread brought caliph called ceremony Chardin Christ circumstance clothes crown custom customary David death divine drink earth East eastern Egypt Egyptians expression father feast fire garments GILL give gods gold Greeks hair hands HARMER hath head heathens Hebrews Hence Herodotus Hist holy Homer honour horse instance Israel Israelites JENNINGS's Jewish Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea kind king king of Persia Lord Maimonides manner mentioned Moses mourning nations night observed Odyss offered Ovid passage passover PATRICK Persians person Philistines Plutarch practice prayer priest prince prophet Psalm Romans round sacred sacrifice Saul says Scythians servants shew signifies Solomon speaking stones supposed Syria temple thee thing tion Trav Travels unto usual Vathek viii Virgil wash wine women words worship
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Էջ 214 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Էջ 304 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Էջ 209 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Էջ 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Էջ 31 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Էջ 388 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Էջ 304 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Էջ 137 - Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Էջ 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Էջ 327 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.