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... probably a tribe in South Arabia . b . Dedan : Daden , an island in the Persian Gulf . 6. Sabtecha , on the east coast of Ethiopia . II . MIZRAIM : the Egyptians . The name is yet preserved in the word Misr , the city of Cairo . Allied ...
... probably a tribe in South Arabia . b . Dedan : Daden , an island in the Persian Gulf . 6. Sabtecha , on the east coast of Ethiopia . II . MIZRAIM : the Egyptians . The name is yet preserved in the word Misr , the city of Cairo . Allied ...
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... the Gordiæan Mountains , -probably Mons Masius . Strabo xi . LH 3320 Efters EGYPT PRELIMINARY REMARKS . OUR relation to the past. [ Ancient Indian Zodiacs . - Bailly . ] [ Pathros - Ruins of Chnubis - Nubia . -Denon. 6 INTRODUCTORY .
... the Gordiæan Mountains , -probably Mons Masius . Strabo xi . LH 3320 Efters EGYPT PRELIMINARY REMARKS . OUR relation to the past. [ Ancient Indian Zodiacs . - Bailly . ] [ Pathros - Ruins of Chnubis - Nubia . -Denon. 6 INTRODUCTORY .
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... probably from Aiyos . Manetho , says , that Ramses , also called Ægyptus , one of the ancient kings of Egypt , gave his own name to his territories ; and Diodorus Siculus states that the Nile was called Ægyptus , after one of the old ...
... probably from Aiyos . Manetho , says , that Ramses , also called Ægyptus , one of the ancient kings of Egypt , gave his own name to his territories ; and Diodorus Siculus states that the Nile was called Ægyptus , after one of the old ...
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... probably little short of 600 miles , and the whole area fit for cultivation may be estimated at about 11,000 square miles . The internal divisions of the country are as clearly and singularly defined as its outer limits , and they have ...
... probably little short of 600 miles , and the whole area fit for cultivation may be estimated at about 11,000 square miles . The internal divisions of the country are as clearly and singularly defined as its outer limits , and they have ...
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... probably followed by the Israelites on their return to the promised land . But besides these , there are five or six others at present known , and several , probably , unexplored . The name Nile seems connected with the Indian term ...
... probably followed by the Israelites on their return to the promised land . But besides these , there are five or six others at present known , and several , probably , unexplored . The name Nile seems connected with the Indian term ...
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Popular passages
Page 82 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 249 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Page 345 - Now IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Page 263 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page 425 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 271 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Page 83 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 261 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination : he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Page 164 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 81 - Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers : that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.