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  • Genesis 3:17-19†   (source)
  • The other five had giant meths from Robotech and Neon Genesis Evangelion.†   (source)
  • Genesis tells us that Eve was created from Adam's rib.†   (source)
  • Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!†   (source)
  • Genesis.†   (source)
  • —From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University†   (source)
  • GENESIS 1:28 Orleanna Price SANDERLING ISLAND, GEORGIA I MAGINE A RUIN so strange it must never have happened.†   (source)
  • A mere show of obedience without inner commitment would not have appeased the God of Genesis.†   (source)
  • Genesis 2:17 PREFACE†   (source)
  • Because the author of the novel on which the film is based,John Steinbeck, knew his Book of Genesis.†   (source)
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  • Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process.†   (source)
  • Genesis 11:6-9, Revised Standard Version.†   (source)
  • Fleming recommended Peter Gabriel, Genesis and Pink Floyd.†   (source)
  • The first night I read through Genesis, the second night I read through Exodus.†   (source)
  • When we were first dating, a Genesis song came on the radio: "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah."†   (source)
  • With a date it signifies Before Guild and identifies the Imperial dating system based on the genesis of the Spacing Guild's monopoly.†   (source)
  • * See Genesis, chapter 22.†   (source)
  • If we go further on in the Book of Genesis we read about the Flood and Noah's Ark.†   (source)
  • Genesis Nine, Verse Six: 'Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.'†   (source)
  • Walter, perhaps the greatest living historian of the ANC, began to tell them about the genesis of the organization and its early days.†   (source)
  • Revisit Genesis.†   (source)
  • This was the genesis of what came to be known as New Coke.†   (source)
  • Lindsay put on a tape and Jas and I looked at one another—it was Genesis.†   (source)
  • The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures.†   (source)
  • When the Calangute slipped its mooring, Saintly Amma raised her hand like a traffic policeman and, "using my sermon voice which I am told belies my age," intoned the words, "Leave your land for my sake," because Genesis was her favorite book.†   (source)
  • He'd made bold statements and fired off thundering salvos, but standing here on the edge of the jungle, with cicadas screeching all around and the hot afternoon sun beating on his shoulders, the notion that the genesis of a worldwide virus attack lay hidden in this abandoned concrete plant struck him as ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Lucky could not resist making a somewhat irreverent reference to Genesis, "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it Cesar let them swim."†   (source)
  • I turned to the book of Genesis, but could not read.†   (source)
  • The first sergeant moaned as he watched the thin leaves burn in sequence from Genesis to Kings, from Revelations toward Mark.†   (source)
  • According to Genesis, God instructed Noah to build an ark to save himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals after God decided to destroy the world because of mankind's evil deeds.†   (source)
  • -GENESIS 1:28†   (source)
  • She spoke: "Everyone, please turn in your Bibles to the book of Genesis, Chapter 24."†   (source)
  • It would seem that Dave had fallen victim to it, and that he'd come to believe he had helped provide an unsanctified vessel and filled it with Something intended only for those things which had made the scene in the first chapter of Genesis … With computers it was not quite as bad as with the Hangman, though, because you could always argue that no matter how elaborate the program, it was basically an extension of the programmer's will and the operations of causal machines merely…†   (source)
  • BRADY Or the miracle He achieved in seven days as described in the beautiful Book of Genesis?†   (source)
  • — Genesis IV:9 How think ye?†   (source)
  • " "There's no reference to it in Genesis," Samuel said.†   (source)
  • And it is in the relationship, or rather the gap, between the policeman and the rest of mankind that the trouble has its genesis.†   (source)
  • He sounded like he was liable to go right through Genesis without a hitch.†   (source)
  • He designed an experiment to prove Genesis was possible.†   (source)
  • It's practically proof that Genesis is a scientific possibility.†   (source)
  • The Almighty God in Genesis was described not as One …. but as Many.†   (source)
  • People were suddenly obliged to revise their whole approach to the Book of Genesis.†   (source)
  • Naturally I knew Chapter 19 of Genesis, which he'd made us copy out time and again.†   (source)
  • Genesis was the beginning of the end for the goddess.†   (source)
  • That would be Genesis 3:24 for those of you keeping score.†   (source)
  • I thought they wrote the later books, not Genesis.†   (source)
  • Again, with fantastic power, Mom shouted those words from Genesis: "Will you go with this man?"†   (source)
  • Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.†   (source)
  • I believe, I believe in the truth of the Book of Genesis!†   (source)
  • But why hadn't she learned Genesis straight through, too, instead of picking the verses she liked?†   (source)
  • After two years we felt that we could approach your sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis.†   (source)
  • Her brother had mentioned the Book of Genesis and its description of the soul as Neshemah—a kind of spiritual "intelligence" that was separate from the body.†   (source)
  • So, not unlike that fellow in Genesis who said Let there be this, or Let there be that, and there was this or that, when Soso said Life has improved, comrades, life—in fact—improved!†   (source)
  • During this period, it was said that Genesis was reinterpreted, permitting God to say: "Increase and multiply, and fill the universe, and subdue it, and rule over all manner of strange beasts and living creatures in the infinite airs, on the infinite earths and beneath them."†   (source)
  • —From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University†   (source)
  • That's okay, though,because the story from Genesis of Adam and Eve is only one version, and on the level of myth, it has many cousins.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, we both had to do the Verse, Genesis 4, about Cain and Abel, after her so-called brush with the lion, and what with all that and the broken arm, Mother feared for our lives with fresh vigor.†   (source)
  • He had returned from his trip to CERN with news of Vetra's Genesis and of antimatter's horrific power.†   (source)
  • It was believed to be the exact knife used by Abraham at the Akedah—the near sacrifice of his son Isaac on Mount Moriah—as depicted in Genesis.†   (source)
  • For many years, it was assumed that Genesis was written sometime around 900 B.C. or even earlier-long before the advent of the deuteronomists.†   (source)
  • He had proved Genesis was physically possible, and that intense sources of energy-what Vetra called God-could duplicate the moment of Creation.†   (source)
  • "If we accept, as Genesis tells us, that 'God created man in his own image,' then we also must accept what this implies—that mankind was not created inferior to God.†   (source)
  • Her full Christian name is Rachel Rebeccah, so she feels free to take after Rebekah, the virgin at the well, who is said in Genesis to be "a damsel very fair" and was offered marriage presents of golden earbobs right off the bat, when Abraham's servant spied her fetching up the water.†   (source)
  • The idea that God allegedly created "something from nothing" was totally contrary to accepted laws of modern physics and therefore, scientists claimed, Genesis was scientifically absurd.†   (source)
  • Book One GENESIS And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.†   (source)
  • Nor was it coincidence that Joseph was said to have been thirty-three when he married the Virgin Mary, or that Jesus accomplished thirty-three miracles, or that God's name was mentioned thirty-three times in Genesis, or that, in Islam, all the dwellers of heaven were permanently thirty-three years old.†   (source)
  • I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.†   (source)
  • He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.†   (source)
  • Prove Genesis?†   (source)
  • —GENESIS†   (source)
  • According to Genesis 9:1-3: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.†   (source)
  • GENESIS 2:24†   (source)
  • As Genesis 7:23 tells us, "Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.†   (source)
  • Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man's care.†   (source)
  • But let a third party enter the gamea visitor from another planet, for example, someone to whom God says, Thou shalt have dominion over creatures of all other stars and all at once taking Genesis for granted becomes problematical.†   (source)
  • Behind all the European faiths, religious and political, we find the first chapter of Genesis, which tells us that the world was created properly, that human existence is good, and that we are therefore entitled to multiply.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Listen to this: Genesis 4:16.†   (source)
  • Do you remember when you read us the sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis and we argued about them?†   (source)
  • Winslow switched from Genesis at the evening and morning of the third day, and jumped to Isaiah, to Lena's relief — the swords-into-plowshares ones that her father liked.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Oh You interpret that the first day recorded in the Book of Genesis could be of indeterminate length.†   (source)
  • But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.†   (source)
  • How can you be so cocksure that the holy of scientific knowledge systematized in the writings of Charles Darwin is, in any way, irreconcilable with the spirit of the Book of Genesis?†   (source)
  • 4 This kabbalistic text is a commentary to the scene in Genesis where Adam gives forth Eve.†   (source)
  • [Note by Frobenius and Fox, African Genesis.†   (source)
  • Hsi Wang Mu is the feminine aspect of the I,ord who walks in the Garden, who created man in his own image, male and female (Book of Genesis, Ez7). and the wine bestow immortality.†   (source)
  • This is the genesis of the "abstract.†   (source)
  • This is the line where creation myths begin to give place to legend—as in the Book of Genesis, following the expulsion from the garden.†   (source)
  • Many of the tales that appear in the collections under the category of origin stories were certainly regarded more as popular fairy tales than as a book of genesis.†   (source)
  • She is a personification of the primal element named in the second verse of Genesis, where we read that "the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."†   (source)
  • And if this be true of the comparatively simple folk mythologies (the systems of myth and ritual by which the primitive hunting and fishing tribes support themselves), what may we say of such magnificent cosmic metaphors as those reflected in the great Homeric epics, the Divine Comedy of Dante, the Book of Genesis, and the timeless temples of the Orient?†   (source)
  • Laboriously did he describe the genesis of the picnic.†   (source)
  • Such, O son of Hur! is the genesis of the beautiful, as they tell it on the Nile.†   (source)
  • Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?"†   (source)
  • She had not thought of that, but a name suggested by a phrase in the book of Genesis came into her head as she proceeded with the baptismal service, and now she pronounced it: "SORROW, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."†   (source)
  • Sperm, which transferred the countless, complicated individual and racial characteristics of the father to the egg, was visible only under a microscope; and even the most powerful magnification did not suffice to determine its genesis or allow it to be seen as anything but a homogeneous body—for the sperm of one animal looked like that of every other.†   (source)
  • And there you had the central dogma of atheistic freethinkers and their pseudo-religion, which presumed to abolish the Book of Genesis and replace it with a stultifying fable of enlightened knowledge, as if Haeckel had been present at the creation of the earth.†   (source)
  • That a creature made—in a genealogical sense—out of a man's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis.†   (source)
  • Y-y-y-yes," he added, becoming much affected by the picture of himself as a person thrown away, and shedding tears; "I feel too good for England: I ought to have lived in Genesis by rights, like the other men of sacrifice, and then I shouldn't have b-b-been called a d-d-drunkard in such a way!"†   (source)
  • I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.†   (source)
  • He left behind him five or six very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Genesis, In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters.†   (source)
  • —GENESIS.†   (source)
  • There was nothing down to poor poetry,—properly speaking, that which persisted in vegetating in manuscripts,—which was not forced, in order to make something of itself, to come and frame itself in the edifice in the shape of a hymn or of prose; the same part, after all, which the tragedies of AEschylus had played in the sacerdotal festivals of Greece; Genesis, in the temple of Solomon.†   (source)
  • The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul.†   (source)
  • He always went to church on Sacrament Sundays, but not very regularly at other times; on wet Sundays, or whenever he had a touch of rheumatism, he used to read the three first chapters of Genesis instead.†   (source)
  • Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.†   (source)
  • Older than the Vedas of Para-Brahm or the Up-Angas of Vyasa, O Melchior; older than the songs of Homer or the metaphysics of Plato, O my Gaspar; older than the sacred books or kings of the people of China, or those of Siddartha, son of the beautiful Maya; older than the Genesis of Mosche the Hebrew—oldest of human records are the writings of Menes, our first king.†   (source)
  • …in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.†   (source)
  • The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil is Cain.†   (source)
  • Did Shakspeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surrogate, in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation?†   (source)
  • [80] But the greater distinctness of American utterance, whatever its genesis and machinery, is palpable enough in many familiar situations.†   (source)
  • We have thus witnessed, within the past two years, the genesis of scores now in wide use and fast taking on respectability; /phone/ for /telephone/, /gas/ for /gasoline/, /co-ed/ for /co-educational/, /pop/ for /populist/, /frat/ for /fraternity/, /gym/ for /gymnasium/, /movie/ for /moving-picture/, /prep-school/ for /preparatory-school/, /auto/ for /automobile/, /aero/ for /aeroplane/.†   (source)
  • He established firmly the native origin of a number of words now in universal use in America—/e. g./, /backwoodsman/, /breadstuffs/, /caucus/, /clapboard/, /sleigh/ and /squatter/—and of such familiar derivatives as /gubernatorial/ and /dutiable/, and he worked out the genesis of not a few loan-words, including /prairie/, /scow/, /rapids/, /hominy/ and /barbecue/.†   (source)
  • Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.†   (source)
  • To these places may be added also that of Genesis, (Gen.†   (source)
  • But it may perhaps be alledged, that the last Chapter only, not the whole Pentateuch, was written by some other man, but the rest not: Let us therefore consider that which we find in the Book of Genesis, Chap.†   (source)
  • "Who?" said Pococurante, "that barbarian, who writes a long commentary in ten books of harsh verse on the first chapter of Genesis; that coarse imitator of the Greeks, who disfigures the Creation, and who, while Moses represents the Eternal producing the world by a word, makes the Messiah take a great pair of compasses from the armoury of heaven to circumscribe His work?†   (source)
  • By means of these two, if thou bringest to mind Genesis at its beginning, it behoves mankind to obtain their livelihood and to thrive.†   (source)
  • For the Book of Genesis, deriveth the Genealogy of Gods people, from the creation of the World, to the going into Egypt: the other four Books of Moses, contain the Election of God for their King, and the Laws which hee prescribed for their Government: The Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, to the time of Saul, describe the acts of Gods people, till the time they cast off Gods yoke, and called for a King, after the manner of their neighbour nations; The rest of the History of…†   (source)
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