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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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rt:- u n ih>^) I byflfco C.: tKfje Comb of iRacfjel BY HERBERT SCHMALZ, A MODERN ENGLISH AR-TIST, PAINTED ON THE SPOT IN 1890. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave.—Gen.,35, 20. WHILE Jacob was advancing by slow stages,with his huge herds and flocks, leadingthem through the fair south countrytoward Hebron, a fresh blow came to him. Hisdeeply loved Rachel died, died in giving birth to asecond son, whom the father called Benjamin. Ja-cobs grief was sore, and he erected a monument toRachel. For many hundred years this pillar stoodabove her grave on the highway south of Jerusalem,near Bethlehem. When or how the ancient pillar dis-appeared we do not know; but the spot is now markedby a later memorial, an Arab mosque, itself almost athousand years of age. Jacob seems to have been thoroughly subdued bythis last blow. He was a man whose affections werefew, but very strong. We read of no more of hisclever tricks; rather we find him grown old and fee-ble, but very wise. His wisdom had tau

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