A Letter to Nathaniel Brassey Halhead [sic]: Containing Some Remarks on His Preface to the Code of Gentoo Laws

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Claredon Press, 1778 - 53 páginas

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Página 43 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Página 10 - It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him. 19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 10 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the Field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 43 - Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations : neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled) : that the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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