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2. A Child's Garden of Verses - Wikipedia

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   A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [ 2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the ...

3. Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours

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   The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours . La Grande Bible de Tours, issued in 1866, was a large ...

4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image - Wikipedia

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   e. " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image " ( Hebrew: לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, romanized : Lōʾ-t̲aʿăśeh lək̲ā p̲esel, wək̲ol-təmûnāh) is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, were spoken by God to the Israelites ...

5. Chapters and verses of the Bible - Wikipedia

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   This gives a total of 31,102 verses, [ 29] which is an average of a little more than 26 verses per chapter and 471 verses per book. Psalm 103 :1–2 being the 15,551st and 15,552nd verses is in the middle of the 31,102 verses of the Bible. John 11:35 [ 30] ("Jesus wept") is the shortest verse in most English translations.

6. Fiery flying serpent - Wikipedia

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   The Israelites bitten by fiery serpents (Book of Numbers chapter 21).A print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations. The fiery flying serpent (Hebrew: שָׂרָף מְעוֹפֵף ‎ sārāf mə‘ōfēf; Greek: ἔκγονα αὐτῶν ἐξελεύσονται; Latin: Absorbens volucrem) is a creature mentioned in the Book of Isaiah in the Tanakh.

7. Cicely Mary Barker - Wikipedia

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   Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies, in the shape of ethereal smiling children with butterfly wings. As a child, she was greatly influenced by the works of the illustrator Kate Greenaway, whom she assiduously copied in her formative years.

8. The Bible and violence - Wikipedia

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   The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament both contain narratives, poems, and instructions which describe, encourage, command, condemn, reward, punish and regulate violent actions by God, [1] individuals, groups, governments, and nation-states. Among the violent acts referred to are war, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, murder, rape, genocide ...

9. Eli (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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   Eli (biblical figure) Eli ( Hebrew: עֵלִי‎, Modern: ʿElī, Tiberian: ʿĒlī, lit. 'ascent' or 'above'; Ancient Greek: Ἠλί, romanized : Ēli; Latin: Heli, fl. c. 11th century BC) was, according to the Book of Samuel, a priest and a judge of the Israelites in the city of Shiloh, ancient Israel. When Hannah came to Shiloh to pray for ...