Birds of the BibleJennings and Graham, 1916 - 467 páginas |
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... number our days accurately , and it takes a thousand of our years to make a day with the Almighty , this allows all the time necessary for the evolution of the earth and the develop- ment of plant and animal life . But according to this ...
... number our days accurately , and it takes a thousand of our years to make a day with the Almighty , this allows all the time necessary for the evolution of the earth and the develop- ment of plant and animal life . But according to this ...
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... numbers of their kind , they were skilfully dropped by arrows of concealed bowmen . Still worse was the custom of taking a wild pigeon or quail , sewing its eyelids together , and binding it in a good location for birds , so that its ...
... numbers of their kind , they were skilfully dropped by arrows of concealed bowmen . Still worse was the custom of taking a wild pigeon or quail , sewing its eyelids together , and binding it in a good location for birds , so that its ...
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... number of partridges by explaining that they build two nests , on one of which the male broods , and the female on the other ; and that the male mated with all the young females before they left the nest . If any Bible writer ever ...
... number of partridges by explaining that they build two nests , on one of which the male broods , and the female on the other ; and that the male mated with all the young females before they left the nest . If any Bible writer ever ...
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... number of other fabled birds , and attached all the current superstition to the history of each , even to the account of the barnyard fowl that spoke . But , as almost all of the birds described are among the list of Bible birds , what ...
... number of other fabled birds , and attached all the current superstition to the history of each , even to the account of the barnyard fowl that spoke . But , as almost all of the birds described are among the list of Bible birds , what ...
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... numbers upon sailing vessels as to sink them . The lands of the Bible are Canaan , lying along the east end of the Mediterranean Sea , in a narrow hilly and mountainous strip ; then the valley of the Jordan , through which flowed the ...
... numbers upon sailing vessels as to sink them . The lands of the Bible are Canaan , lying along the east end of the Mediterranean Sea , in a narrow hilly and mountainous strip ; then the valley of the Jordan , through which flowed the ...
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