/ The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.Ezekiel 34:2-4“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. ...
but one of the main hindrances to the perfection of this “love” is the fact that we cannot be “honest/truthful” with each other. “He may get hurt if I say that”, “What would she think of me”,
As I have tried to show here, the scope of bible pronunciation is much broader than an inventory and description of sounds. It embraces the elements of God's way of doing things, and they function in the communication process. Thus, any speaker with a goal of learning how to pronounce ...
29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. Living Bible (TLB) The Living Bible copyright...
“I said to them, ‘If it is good in your sight, give me my wages, but if not, never mind!’ So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. Then the LORD said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.’ So I took ...
is number 209(DOC E). “If a man strikes the daughter of a free man and causes her to lose her fruIT of the womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver”.Compared to law 213, “if he has struck a slave girl of a free man and causes her to lose her fruIT of the womb, he ...
A gold or silver coin that was used in Europe, mostly in Venice, starting from the Middle Ages. 37. Ducketts The very American pronunciation of the previous word is used to refer to poker chips—but also money. 38. Fetti A gross mispronunciation of the Spanish wordferia, which in Mexico...
Even this late in the season, the autumn is an excellent time to be combing book reviews for agent leads, much better than the dead of winter. There are always a lot of great new books hitting the shelves in the fall, including most of the year’s crop of literary fiction and culture...
We’ve been spending more time in our family room at home, and I haven’t put much time or thought into the room yet but really love it in there. When we work from home there some days, and it does double duty as a mini art studio for the boys. It’s where we do crafts, wra...
In Gen 23, Abraham's wife Sarah has died, and he needs to buy a burial field. Ephron the Hittite takes advantage of Abraham's grief and need to secure burial property quickly, and charges him an incredibly exorbitant 400 shekels of silver for a field (cf. Jer 32.9), AND saddles him...