 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 852 pages
...flood Kept in my foul, and would not let it forth To find the empty, vaft, and wand'ring air. Shot. -He gathered up his feet into the bed, And yielded up the ghoft. Gen. 8. To refign ; to give up ; fttwimes with a particle at up or over. — He not •.Mug... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...appositely quotes the passage, Gen. xxix. 33. " And when Jacob had made an eud of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost." This seems to imply a peaceful departure ; and, may, it Is likely, be so taken, generally.... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...it therein was from the children ofHeth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, be vinedressers and husbandmen. 13 1[ And pthe 'pillars ghost, and 'was gathered unto his people. ' '"• "**• CHAP. L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...p. 203. JACOB'S DEATH: 639. [Gen. xlix. 33.] And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered to his people. Thus Indians die almost without any pain, in the manner of consumptive... | |
 | Ann Taylor - Child rearing - 1818 - 194 pages
...in heaven." CHAP. XI. THE DEATH OF PARENTS. " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. GENESIS, xlix. 33. " And Joseph fell upon his Father's face,... | |
 | Robert May - 1819 - 400 pages
...that he had to My to his children, and finished all the direction* and commands he intended to give; he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and w«» gathered unto his people. Jacob sat on the sidtt.of hi* bed to bless his children,... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...is therein, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, s all grown over with ghost, and was gathered unto his people. tHAP. L. AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - West Indies - 1819 - 644 pages
...of GATHERING UP THE FEET OF THE DYING? " And when " Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, " HE GATHERED UP HIS FEET INTO THE BED, " and yielded up the ghost."* Many other corresponding circumstances may be traced in Herodotus. Thus when he enumerates... | |
 | 1819 - 402 pages
...he expired, without a groan or a sigh. — " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, .and yielded up the ghost." The following is the Letter on the death of his Wife, to which allusion is made above. " Feb.... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821 - 316 pages
...is therein, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 7 The funeral. 24 Joseph... | |
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 
