| Joseph Holdich - Methodist Church - 1842 - 488 pages
...preached the first sermon. His text was taken from the address of the patriarch Jacob to Pharaoh : " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage." It was touching to see him upon his elevated seat, for he was obliged to preach in a sitting posture,... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of thy years ?" (Margin.) What a homely question ! " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...evil have the days of the years of my life been." What a plain statement of the truth ! How unlike the language of a worldly court ! How profitable both... | |
| John Kitto - 1843 - 400 pages
...patriarch, and asked him how old he was. He answered — " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." 5. Jacob and his family, having taken possession of the district 1 of Goshen, remained there undisturbed... | |
| 1843 - 912 pages
...Jacob, How i old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a En-rogel : 8 And the border went up by 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 IT And Joseph placed his father... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. years of my life been, and have not attained unto...blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the... | |
| Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...alive." And Joseph presented his father Jacob before Pharaoh. " How old art thou ? " asked the king. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, " The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." b Seventeen years did the aged Jacob live in Egypt. When his end was near, Joseph came with his two... | |
| Henry Blunt - Bible - 1844 - 368 pages
...him before Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. How singular an interview was this... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 530 pages
...eliicebat; this is presumably an example of Gandolf's " gaudy ware," 1. 78. 101. Cf. Genesis, xlviirg: " And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...evil have the days of the years of my life been." 623. 108. Visor. A mask, like those worn by ancient actors. Term. A bust terminating in a square pedestal,... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr, Mary Ella Given - English language - 1920 - 410 pages
...and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years...blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the... | |
| Robert Jones Burdette - California - 1922 - 520 pages
...was when I was weaned. Happier, my son; far happier. I think Jacob sized it up when he told Pharaoh, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." No man could work more days into one sentence than Jacob, when he had lots of time. " But, as I was... | |
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