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  • Music
    ...as by a neck and finger board." From the long residence of the Hebrews in Egypt, it is no improbable conjecture that their music was derived from that sour ...n of [[Israel]] sang their triumphal song of deliverance from the hosts of Egypt; and Miriam, in celebration of the same event, exercised one of her functio
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  • Dwelling
    ...tral pillars on the basement; when these were pulled down the whole of the upper floors would fall also.  Judges 16:26. It may be added that, when a ma
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  • Osiris
    ...husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. </p> ...See Prichard, Mythology, p. 208; Willinson, Man. and Cust. 4:314; Bunsen, Egypt's Place, 1:414. </p>
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  • Monasticism
    ...ns on their excessive multiplication. Neither was the movement confined to Egypt. Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and more especially the region of Mount Sinai, s
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  • Candace
    ...north latitude. Extensive ruins found in this neighborhood, and along the upper valley of the Nile, indicate high civilization among the ancient Ethiopians <p> [[Queen]] of Ethiopia (the island of Meroe, in upper Nubia, between the Nile on one side and the Atbara on the other). The name
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  • Text Of The Gospels
    ...parallel to, though earlier and more important than, the Antiochian text. Egypt was the home of scholars, and if such a recension was made there, it is nat
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  • Ark
    ...they at last were reputed to be deities. Hence in the ancient mythology of Egypt, there were precisely eight gods; and the ark was esteemed an emblem of the ...d high and two cubits long, and covered all over with the purest gold. Its upper surface or lid, the mercy-seat, was surrounded with a rim of gold; and on e
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  • Pharaoh-Necoh
    ...; Wiedemann, <i> Geschichte von Alt-Aegypten </i> , 179-90; Rawlinson, <i> Egypt </i> ("Story of the Nations"), 354 ff; <i> Herodotus </i> ii. 158,159. </p>
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  • Ships And Boats
    ...nt voyages. In addition to this, there was a regular trade maintained with Egypt, whence Solomon Imported chariots and horses (&nbsp; 1 Kings 10:28-29 ). </ ...ments like Layard, <i> Nineveh </i> , II, 379 ff; Maspero, <i> [[Ancient]] Egypt and Assyria </i> ; Ball, <i> Light from the East </i> , and Reissner, <i> [
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  • Mark
    ...k’s name. The most widely spread is that which assigns to him a mission in Egypt, and the evangelization of Alexandria. This mission is regarded as occupyin ...iphanius, Eusebius, and Jerom, all assert that Mark preached the Gospel in Egypt; and the two latter call him bishop of Alexandria. </p> <p> Dr. Lardner thi
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  • Bricks
    ...e case in the time of Moses. &nbsp;Exodus 5:7-19 . [[Bricks]] brought from Egypt vary in size, from 20 inches to 14-1/4 in. long, 8-3/4 in. to 6-1/2 in. wid ...bor in which the Hebrews in Egypt were most oppressed. On the monuments of Egypt, all the parts of this hard and ancient task-work are painted-the carrying,
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  • Hosea
    ...ser III (745-727 B.C.). Hosea rebuked efforts at alliance with Assyria and Egypt as the means to national security. He witnessed the political chaos in Isra ...the Egypt of affliction (&nbsp;Hosea 8:13; &nbsp;Hosea 9:3), not literal "Egypt" (&nbsp;Hosea 11:5). </p> <p> New [[Testament]] references: &nbsp;Hosea 11:
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  • Marriage
    ...kiel 16:40; &nbsp; Ezekiel 23:45 ). The earlier penalty was hurning, as in Egypt (&nbsp; Genesis 38:24; [[Tamar]] is virtually betrothed). In &nbsp; Numbers ...and future. I will establish thee as wife." Practicing in marriage law in Egypt was one of the priestly functions, for at the conclusion the contract state
    253 KB (41,178 words) - 13:35, 13 October 2021
  • Noph
    ...the Hegira, A. D. 641; after which it was superseded as the metropolis of Egypt by Fostat, now Old Cairo, in the construction of which its materials were e ...et up in that place; and the Fatimite caliphs, when they became masters of Egypt, added another to it, which is known to us at this day by the name of Grand
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  • Law
    ...hers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them, ...es by that supernatural Power which had delivered the Hebrew nation out of Egypt, conducted them through the wilderness, planted them in the land of Canaan,
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  • Founder Of A Gnostic Sect Valentinus
    ...phites also Christus leaves the Sophia behind and escapes himself into the upper realm of light. </p> <p> The notion of a fall of the last of the Aeons from
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  • Sinai
    ...er, but were at first ascribed to the ancient Israelites on their way from Egypt to Sinai; and afterwards to [[Christian]] pilgrims of the fourth century. R ...heory, put forward by Mr. [[Baker]] Greene ( <i> The Hebrew Migration from Egypt </i> ), though accepted by Dr. Sayce ( <i> [[Higher]] Cricitism </i> , 1894
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  • Rivers And Waterways In The Bible
    ...e Red Sea. </p> <p> Apart from the significant roles played by the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the rivers of the biblical wor
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  • Pottery In Bible Times
    ...ation becomes more evident during the Late Bronze IIb (about 1300-1200) as Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty established a firmer control over the affairs of the e
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  • Water
    ...n the morning, and again toward evening. The same custom prevails in Upper Egypt, but on a larger scale: and there are caravanserais often found near the we ...ay unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all
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