The Women of Israel, Volume 1

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D. Appleton & Company, 1851 - Jewish women
 

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Page 121 - from Laban, appears to me to originate in the same feeling which actuated Abraham to refuse gifts from the king of Sodom, " lest he should say, I have made Abraham rich." Depending upon Him who had promised, "I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have
Page 32 - ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: therefore turn yourselves, and live ye" (Eze. xviii. 30, 31, 32). "Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you
Page 32 - Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
Page 28 - hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." Though to Him all was known, yet would not the beneficent, the ever-loving, aye, even at that moment still loving God condemn without question, judge without permitting defence. And how
Page 70 - Hagar ? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad whence he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand, for I will make him a great nation." And the promise was fulfilled. The whole history of Hagar is fraught with the deepest comfort. She was one of the many in individual character;
Page 100 - I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me ?" It would have been the extreme of cruelty to
Page 162 - shall not go out to war; neither shall he be charged with any business, but he shall be free at home for one year." Were this the whole law, we might justly suppose that the happiness of man was alone regarded; but it is not so. Why was this year of release granted him ? For his own
Page 127 - by the fear of his father Isaac. And Jacob offered sacrifices on the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons (ie grandsons) and
Page 199 - all wickedness and idolatry, and to come unto the Lord in every event, thought, act, desire, public or private, of her life. " Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God," Moses exclaims, in the twenty-ninth chapter of Deuteronomy; " your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your

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