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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. And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. 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 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 183 - 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 2 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with' violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 197 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 5 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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 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 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
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| Title | A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ... 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, Jacob Bryant Volume 3 of A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology, Jacob Bryant |
| Author | Jacob Bryant |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Walker, 1807 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2006 |
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