The Modern Reader's Bible: A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures Presented in Modern Literary Form, Part 2

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Richard Green Moulton
Macmillan, 1899

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Page 11 - And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Page 67 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Page 42 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 86 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, "Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him...
Page 45 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? •Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders ? Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Page 91 - For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us ? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Page 256 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 43 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 60 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 63 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. alf thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry, "and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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