Sample sentences for OLD TESTAMENT

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the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible

The Bible consists of the Old and New Testaments.

The story of David and Goliath may be the most popular in the Old Testament.
Go to the Old Testament; go to the New.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews (Jews) which is the first half of the Christian Bible

...for all he knows we mighta come straight out of Ethiopia durin' the Old Testament.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

Old Testament = the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible

Well if we came out durin' the Old Testament it's too long ago to matter.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

Old Testament = the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible

Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

Old Testament = from the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible

Why is Job, the hero of the Old Testament book of the same name, given as a type of misery?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
There was this guy named Job in the Old Testament who was a believer but had really terrible things happen to him.
Bethany Hamilton -- Soul Surfer
The old and wise lady began to tell us a story from the Old Testament.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
So I went back to their Old Testament, back to when their lives and ours were intertwined.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
First, the concept of laying a cornerstone comes from the Old Testament.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Lucy selected a book—a volume of Old Testament commentaries.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
"Ah," said Adam, "I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
He slapped open a copy of the Old Testament.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
But later that day Andrew Merrick too, came home, his beard grown long and bushy as an Old Testament prophet.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
The theology of the Old Testament prophets was a third.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
They're very difficult, in the Old Testament particularly.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
"Did you have a nice walk?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, sitting down in his easy chair, pulling the volume of the Old Testament to him and opening it.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Led by the usher's flashlight I stumbled through the curtains into the darkened hall, found a seat and was suddenly in the middle of the Old Testament.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf

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