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Walter John de la Mare. Stories from the Bible
Stories from the Bible
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INTRODUCTION
STORIES FROM THE BIBLE
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
THE CREATION OF MAN
THE FALL FROM GRACE
THE FLOOD
JOSEPH
JOSEPH'S DREAM
JOSEPH IN PRISON
JOSEPH DIVINES PHARAOH'S DREAM
JOSEPH'S BROTHERS IN EGYPT
JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF
JACOB COMES DOWN INTO EGYPT
MOSES
THE ARK OF BULRUSHES
THE BURNING BUSH
THE PETITION TO PHARAOH
THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT
EGYPT IS AFRAID
THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
THE FLIGHT FROM EGYPT
THE CROSSING OF THE RED SEA
THE WILDERNESS
THE DEATH OF MOSES
THE FALL OF JERICHO
SAMSON. SAMSON
THE ANGELS
THE RIDDLE
THE FOXES IN THE WHEAT
DELILAH
SAMSON BETRAYED
SAMUEL
HIS CHILDHOOD
THE CAPTURE OF THE ARK
THE ARK IS RESTORED
SAUL
SAUL AND SAMUEL
SAUL IS MADE KING
KING NAHASH
JONATHAN
KING AGAG
DAVID
DAVID IS ANOINTED KING OVER ISRAEL
DAVID AND GOLIATH
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Walter John de la Mare
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Adam hearkened to these words with all his understanding, and in the will of the Lord God he found freedom and his peace. The days of his life went by, and the Lord God brought to him in his own season every beast of the field and every fowl of the air that he had made out of the dust, to see what Adam would call it, and to see which of them was most meet to him for company. And Adam gazed at them, marvelling as they moved before him, each in its own kind following the instinct and desire that was the secret of its life.
And as Adam watched them, it seemed that of his own insight and divination he shared in the life and being of each one of them in turn. They wandered amid the little trees, browsing in the herbage, and on the gentle slopes at the river's brink stooped their heads to quench their thirst, or stretched themselves a-drowse in the sunshine, or lay cleaning and preening their sleek coats, or sported in play one with another, and leaped and exulted.
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