A New System; Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology:: Wherein an Attempt is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity,J. Walker; W. J. and J. Richardson; R. Faulder and Son; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Cuthell and Martin; H.D. Symonds; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; E. Jeffery; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Booker; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Asperne; J. Murray; and J. Harris., 1807 - History, Ancient |
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... earth was corrupt before God ; and the earth was filled with violence . And God looked upon earth , and behold , it was corrupt : for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth . And God said unto Noah , The end of all flesh is come ...
... earth was corrupt before God ; and the earth was filled with violence . And God looked upon earth , and behold , it was corrupt : for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth . And God said unto Noah , The end of all flesh is come ...
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... earth : and the waters increased , and bare up the ark , and it was lift up above the earth .- * And all flesh died , that moved upon the earth - All , in whose nostrils was the breath of life - And every living substance was destroyed ...
... earth : and the waters increased , and bare up the ark , and it was lift up above the earth .- * And all flesh died , that moved upon the earth - All , in whose nostrils was the breath of life - And every living substance was destroyed ...
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... earth . Also he sent forth a dove from him , to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground : But ... earth . And he stayed yet other seven days ; and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him any more . And ...
... earth . Also he sent forth a dove from him , to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground : But ... earth . And he stayed yet other seven days ; and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him any more . And ...
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... earth . In conformity to these suppositions I shall endea- vour to shew , that these things did happen : That the history of the deluge was religiously preserved in the first ages : That every circumstance of it is to be met with among ...
... earth . In conformity to these suppositions I shall endea- vour to shew , that these things did happen : That the history of the deluge was religiously preserved in the first ages : That every circumstance of it is to be met with among ...
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... earth began to be again dry , Zeus ordered Prometheus and Minerva to make images of clay in the form of men : and when they were finished , he called the winds , and made them breathe into each , and ren- 18 Noah lived above three ...
... earth began to be again dry , Zeus ordered Prometheus and Minerva to make images of clay in the form of men : and when they were finished , he called the winds , and made them breathe into each , and ren- 18 Noah lived above three ...
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Page 128 - And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child ; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. 61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
Page 3 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 3 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 5 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 5 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 128 - And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways...
Page 197 - This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 5 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 38 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Page 2 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.