Famous quotes containing the word hebrew:
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.
The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (25:27)
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 4)
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