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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.<br />

Genesis ch. 5, v. 24<br />

And all the days <strong>of</strong> Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.<br />

Genesis ch. 5, v. 27<br />

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.<br />

Genesis ch. 5, v. 32<br />

<strong>The</strong>re were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons <strong>of</strong> God came in<br />

unto the daughters <strong>of</strong> men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which<br />

were <strong>of</strong> old, men <strong>of</strong> renown.<br />

Genesis ch. 6, v. 4<br />

<strong>The</strong>re went in two and two unto Noah into the Ark, the male and the female.<br />

Genesis ch. 7, v. 9<br />

But the dove found no rest for the sole <strong>of</strong> her foot.<br />

Genesis ch. 8, v. 9<br />

For the imagination <strong>of</strong> man’s heart is evil from his youth.<br />

Genesis ch. 8, v. 21<br />

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter,<br />

and day and night shall not cease.<br />

Genesis ch. 8, v. 22<br />

At the hand <strong>of</strong> every man’s brother will I require the life <strong>of</strong> man.<br />

Genesis ch. 9, v. 5<br />

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.<br />

Genesis ch. 9, v. 6<br />

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token <strong>of</strong> a covenant between me and the<br />

earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in<br />

the cloud.<br />

Genesis ch. 9, v. 13<br />

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.<br />

Genesis ch. 10, v. 9<br />

Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me...for we be brethren.<br />

Genesis ch. 13, v. 8<br />

An horror <strong>of</strong> great darkness fell upon him.<br />

Genesis ch. 15, v. 12<br />

Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.<br />

Genesis ch. 15, v. 15<br />

His [Ishmael’s] hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.<br />

Genesis ch. 16, v. 12<br />

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after<br />

the manner <strong>of</strong> women.<br />

Genesis ch. 18, v. 11

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