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... offered facrifice to God according to his direction , and bestowed upon the high - priest and the priests fuitable honours . ' Further , whereas Vol- taire adds , Jaddus inftantly displayed prophecies , " which clearly indicated that ...
... offered facrifice to God according to his direction , and bestowed upon the high - priest and the priests fuitable honours . ' Further , whereas Vol- taire adds , Jaddus inftantly displayed prophecies , " which clearly indicated that ...
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... offering to the lord Adonai , whom they afterwards adored . It is true that the Pentateuch fpeaks of nothing but the golden calf , which no prophet mentions : but this is not the place to clear up this great difficulty : it is ...
... offering to the lord Adonai , whom they afterwards adored . It is true that the Pentateuch fpeaks of nothing but the golden calf , which no prophet mentions : but this is not the place to clear up this great difficulty : it is ...
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... offered facrifices , nor flew beasts , for the space of forty years in the wilderness , but took up the tabernacle of Moloc , and the star of the god Rem- phan . " Acts , vii . 42 . 66 S But is this account fair ? it must be evident to ...
... offered facrifices , nor flew beasts , for the space of forty years in the wilderness , but took up the tabernacle of Moloc , and the star of the god Rem- phan . " Acts , vii . 42 . 66 S But is this account fair ? it must be evident to ...
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... offered facrifices to Jehovah in the defert , or various occafions , as at the confirmation of the covenant between God and them , Exod . xxiv . 4. at the confecration of the altar and tabernacle , Num . vii . and at the celebration of ...
... offered facrifices to Jehovah in the defert , or various occafions , as at the confirmation of the covenant between God and them , Exod . xxiv . 4. at the confecration of the altar and tabernacle , Num . vii . and at the celebration of ...
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... offered , or did ye offer unto me facrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years , O houfe of Ifrael ! ' Indeed it is fufficient to justify the question , ( which according to the most common + use at least of such interrogative ...
... offered , or did ye offer unto me facrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years , O houfe of Ifrael ! ' Indeed it is fufficient to justify the question , ( which according to the most common + use at least of such interrogative ...
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Page 127 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 346 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself serso vant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law...
Page 139 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Page 368 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Page 475 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring : that ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God,...
Page 481 - That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Page 381 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Page 509 - THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up...
Page 266 - Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Page 131 - But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.