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Cush also begot Nimrod, who was the first man of might on earth. He was a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord; hence the saying, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter by the grace of the Lord.”
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He [Amaziah] defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, as is still the case. Then Amaziah sent envoys to King Jehoash son of…
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The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre:
O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea,
Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands:
Thus said the…
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After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
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ca. 1524
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Shachar began to mold and cast human body parts from life early in his career. Here, hands carry the body of a young girl wrapped in a sheet, perhaps alluding to the Virgin Mary supporting the dead…
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Gil Shahar
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2001
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[To Jacob, thinking that he is Esau:] And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed.
“May…
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With the Almighty’s assistance.It having been the case that the esteemed and exalted R. Joseph Fico, may his Rock and Redeemer protect him, has been perpetually quarreling with his esteemed wife, Mrs…
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Ottoman Empire (Egypt)
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1607
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These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…
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Now I would also like to sing a bit,
With my poor voice,
Of things that have happened recently,
Which everyone ought to know:
Of the plague and pestilence,
That have happened here this time
In the…
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Elye Bokher
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1514
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It did not take long to apprehend the assassin. A woman who had been passing heard the shots, saw a car skid away, took down the number and gave it to the police and, within hours, a man had been…
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Sandra Braude
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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1993