Sample Sentences for
Old Testament
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    Go to the Old Testament; go to the New.  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews (Jews) which is the first half of the Christian Bible
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    The Old Testament My father was a traveling preacher.†  (source)
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    Since the Old Testament, God's been deafening up on us.†  (source)
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    It's the final 'The Verse' in the Old Testament, I'm trying to tell you.†  (source)
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    "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.†  (source)
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    One of the Old Testament words for "god" has the same semantic root as the Muslim Allah.†  (source)
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    His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†  (source)
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    Dad came upstairs every evening and settled himself into a sofa in the Chapel, where he would cough and watch TV or read the Old Testament.†  (source)
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    Still, no matter what your religious beliefs, to get the most out of your reading of European and American literatures, knowing something about the Old and New Testaments is essential.†  (source)
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    Whether they favored the unflinching hand of the Old Testament or the more forgiving hand of the New, their submission to the will of God helped them to understand, or at least accept the inescapable course of events.†  (source)
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    'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.†  (source)
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    I stared at Mister Wilde, his face stubborn as an Old Testament god's, his eyes ferocious and damning, an old man stooped in a bad light, carving away at his worry.†  (source)
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    Northrop Frye, one of the great literary critics, said in the 1950s that biblical typology—the comparative study of types between the Old and New Testaments and, by extension, out into literature—was a dead language, and things haven't improved since then.†  (source)
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