The Book of Genesis in the Light of Modern KnowledgeMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1901 - 572 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abel Adam Adapa Ahura Mazda ancient animals Ararat Babylon Babylonian beginning believe Berosus Bible birds Book of Genesis Cain Cain's called Canaan chaos chapter of Genesis conception created creatures cubit deity deluge destroyed Deucalion Dillmann Eabani earth East Asiatic Egyptian Elohim Elohist Enoch Euphrates evil fact firmament Flood legend Flood myth Flood story Flood tradition genealogy gods Greek heaven Hebrew hero Hindus human Island Izdubar Jahveh Elohim Japheth Jastrow Jehovist Kenites Lamech land living Marduk mentioned Moses mountain mythical mythology narrative natural Nisir Noah Noah's Old Testament original Phoenician poem preserved Priestly Writer RACE AND GEOGRAPH rain regard religious sacred Sanchuniathon seems serpent shalt Shem ship Sit-napistim speaks spirit strange supposed tablet tain Tehom thee thing thou Tiamat tion Tower of Babel translation tree verse waters whole wife woman word Xisuthros
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 459 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, And turneth the shadow of death into the morning, And maketh the day dark with night: That calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth : The Lord is his name: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Seite 30 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Seite 33 - And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Seite 15 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Seite 30 - ... Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Seite 29 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Seite 293 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Seite 82 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Seite 299 - Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Seite 467 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more.