Identifier: bibleitsstory58horn (find matches)
Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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f mans earliestdays must necessarily be imperfect. Of thelocation of the Garden of Eden we have no knowl-edge except from the biblical description whichplaces it amid four rivers and names the Euphratesas one of these. Students have usually guessed itslocation as suggested on the map, near the mouth ofthe Euphrates, a region where the garden mightinclude seashore, river-meadows, and mountains. Noahs landing place, Mt. Ararat, the centre fromwhich his descendants went forth for the secondpeopling of the earth, is fairly settled upon as beingin the great culminating range of Armenia, the tre-mendous peaks which tower at the Euphrates source.The site of Babylon or Babel has been definitelyestablished by modern research, as has also that ofUr, the city whence Abraham set out upon hisjourneyings. These are traced on the map, showinghow he went with his father to Haran, how hewandered as far as Egypt, and then finally settledin Palestine, the land promised to his descendantsby the Almighty.
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EXODUS XXXIX THE MAKING OF THE BREASTPLATE 169 6 If And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold,graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children ofIsrael. 7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should bestones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the Lord com-manded Moses. 8 ^ And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the workof the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twinedUnen. 9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a spanwas the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius,a topaz, and a carbuncle: this ivas the first row. 11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 12 And the third row, a figure, an agate, and an amethyst. 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they wereinclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings. 14 And the stones were according to the names of

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