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or prior narrative , A single example ia the original Hebrew is here
adduced to shew the connexion of ideas in both accounts , and whoever will take the trouble to compare both records , which I have made an attempt
Genesis vi . 5—8 . ntn r » m * o mm ami nv Hoi p » 3 tznxn *? d m pn mb mnu / nn o- mm on 3 ^> : ov rr
ayjfrvi pan man n » naw niiT noaoi *• : 137 K 7
• row D-mn n » nnoK no-ran ^ a fyo vi * n 3 twn ti ; nona ti ; d-tkd viona o DTOtyn *] U / -an : Dmttfi / ¦ o
Two other passages , which for brevity ' s sake I shall not quote from the Hebrew at length , exhibit the following train of reflection :
I . Gen . vii . 1 —5 : " Jehovah says to Noah , Thou art righteous , save thyself and thy family , together with certain animals , in a vessel : for every thing shall be destroyed . Accordingly Noah does so . "
Here it will be remarked , that in the former example the same succession of ideas is apparent in both records ; whereas in the latter God announces the deluge , from which Noah is warned to escape in the ark , at the end of his address in the one
record , but at the commencement of it in the other . Yet , it must be owned , that the train of ideas is equally correct and proper in both . Nor is the account of the deluge ,
although it certainly affords the most detailed example , tne only repetition of a narrative in the book of Genesis ; for the destruction of Sodom and the deliverance of Lot is twice related , once in Gen . xix . 1—28 , in a very circumstantial manner , and embracing
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to separate in the fifth , part of the Repertory of Biblical and Oriental Li *
terature , will be sensible that a good connexion exists in all the remaining portions of the narrative .
II . Genesis vi . 12 , 13 . pKn n » - mnhx s * arm
^ d rpntyrna nnntfio mm : pNrr hv i : m mn n&o hy vp r \ y ? D \ n ^» nowi 13 . PIK ^ D O ^ 27 K 2 ifcQ ^ am omasa Dfcn y *) nr ) : vnxn n » on ^ n ^
D11 . Gen . vi . 9—22 : 4 € Noah is righteous , the earth corrupt : God observes its corrupt state . He addresses Noah thus : Every thing shall die ; build a
ship , for I will cause a flood to take place , but will preserve thee . Thou shalt go on board , therefore , with thy family and certain animals , taking care to have a sufficiency of provisions for all . Accordingly Noah does so . "
a variety of collateral incidents , and again in the succeeding verses , Gen . xix . 29 , 30 , in a few words only . The vision which appeared to Abraham , a year before the birth of Isaac , and which is related in Gen . xvii .,
isalso repeated in a peculiar tone in Gen . xviii . Twofold derivations of the names of some of the sons of Jacob , each bearing a peculiar characteristic , occur in Gen . xxx . 14—16 . Comp . IB , also 23 and 24 .
Traces of a repetition in the narrative may also be found in the account of the covenant entered into between Laban and Jacob . See Gen . xxxi . 4 £ —54 . Even the twofold genealogies , one of which is in Gen . x ., and the
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536 Eichhorn * * Account of the Book of Genetis :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/16/
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