Hebrew

Famous quotes containing the word hebrew:

    Thou shalt not steal.
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:15.

    The eighth commandment.

    Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.

    President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.