 | 1843 - 778 pages
...it had come down to only £1SO. In the earliest times, division of labor was found necessary : " And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." These two distinctions were kept up among both the Israelites and Egyptians, as seperate and distinct... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - Bible - 1843 - 578 pages
...Enos lived after he begnt Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." er Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto... | |
 | 1843 - 310 pages
...Ghost. We are next told, that the birth of Abel followed that of Cain, and that Abel (a type of Christ) was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground ; it is then added, " And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...circumstances have been transmitted to us of this second stale of man, but it seems to have been a mixture of agricultural and pastoral life in its simplest...family in that collected state which constitutes a town :t but it was not till the sixth generation after him that any of the arts began to be cultivated,... | |
 | Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton - Bible - 1844 - 534 pages
...brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God. 2And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3And it was so * after some time that Cain t or. after brought of the fruits of the day8earth a sacrifice... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...Mel. GENESIS. LOH.O. 2 And and said, I have gotten a man from the she again hare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, thai Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...moreover, that he was the possessor of flocks and herds, and a tiller of the ground ; for we read that " Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground ;" but as the ground was " cursed," that is productive of nothing which could supersede the necessity... | |
 | Henry Blunt - Bible - 1844 - 368 pages
...bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from, the Lord. 2. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...especially in contrasts. This error is exemplified in the peculiar local accent of New England; thus, Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the gr6und." * This faulty tone substitutes double for single inflections. The true reading would be marked... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel; and 7Ъ* murder of Abel. W r- 3 And in process of time it came to DUSS, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an onering unto... | |
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And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. 
