Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, limited, 1919 |
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aboriginal age-grade Akikuyu ancient appears Assam Australia Baganda Bantu birth bride bride price British East Africa brother's wife C. W. Hobley called Celebes Central Provinces ceremony child circumcision clan classificatory or group cousin marriage cross cross-cousins custom dead death deceased Dravidian elder brother elder sister exchange exogamous classes exogamy father-in-law father's sister father's sister's daughter Folk-lore forbidden ghost girl goat group marriage hand husband Islands Jacob John Roscoe Journal Kikuyu king Leipsic levirate London man's mandrake marriage of cousins marriage of cross-cousins Masai Melanesia mother's brother mother's brother's daughter Mysore natives observed ortho-cousins parents paternal Pausanias practice prohibition R. V. Russell relations rule sacred sister respectively skin sororate soul Southern India spirit stone story system of relationship tion totemic Totemism and Exogamy Tribes of Southern W. H. R. Rivers widow wife's sister wives woman women young younger brother younger sister
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Page 41 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 3 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 484 - And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Page 484 - And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 401 - Mizpah ; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Page 412 - And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 4 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 516 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 3 - Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Page 482 - And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her and said unto her, "Entice him and see wherein his great strength lieth and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.