 | Charles Alexander Johns - Botany - 1846 - 202 pages
...nourishment which at this season it so much needed. What a commentary have we here on the passage, " There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground!" In a kind of ravine, or rather hollow, among the rocks, not very far from the mountain's top, we fell... | |
 | Patrick M'Farlane (geologist.) - 1846 - 80 pages
...the original state of matters in Sacred History. There, we are informed, its Creator had not at first caused it to rain upon the earth, but there went up a mist or vapour which watered the whole face of the ground. Even rain then, we may consider as one of the... | |
 | 1848 - 588 pages
...leading fact is named in Genesis ii. 5, 6. The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth ; hut there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The dry land had appeared in consequence of the drawing-off of the waters into the "fountains of the... | |
 | 1848 - 994 pages
...his wife : and they shall bo cue llcsh. 26 And they were both naked, the man 6 Hut there went up ¡i mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 'CHAP. in. b Ц And the LORD Gml planted -a garden eastward in Krten ; und there lie put the man whom... | |
 | Charles Holland - 1849 - 296 pages
...There was no rainbow before the flood, for indeed, it would appear there was no rain. "For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth But there...earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." (Chap. ii. 5, 6.) It is probable then, that the first rain that came on the earth, was that which lasting... | |
 | Emily D. Bilski - Judaism - 2004 - 168 pages
...second description, which occurs a few verses later, is a far more humbling account of our origins: "There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of... | |
 | R. H. Charles - Religion - 2004 - 704 pages
...the earth. Cp. Gen. i. 2, 'The Spirit of God brooded upon the face of the waters,' and Gen. ii. 6, ' There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.' In connexion with these ffi 4 In the high places did I fix my abode, And my throne was eein the pillar... | |
 | Elsie T. Choice - Religion - 2005 - 337 pages
...herb" to pre-determined areas of Earth as food for his living creatures. And in that Era, "the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the Earth, but there...Earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." (Genesis 2:6) This indicates that a sophisticated, artificial watering system was in place. This unique... | |
 | English language - 2005 - 802 pages
...grew, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man on the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,... | |
 | Francene Hash - Religion - 2005 - 177 pages
...the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of... | |
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God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there... 
