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Example sentences for "exodus"

Lexicographically close words:
exitu; exitum; exitus; exoccipital; exode; exogamic; exogamous; exogamy; exogenous; exogens
  1. The annual conference of that year lasted only one day on account of the hasty preparations which the people were making for their exodus southward.

  2. Before Elder Woodruff reached his home in Nauvoo, President Young with a number of the Saints had already commenced their memorable exodus from that city.

  3. The efforts to provide the necessary equipments for this second exodus across the plains brought its hardship to those who remained.

  4. Dancing, card playing, and a hilarious life were not in consonance with the solemn mission of that band of pioneers whose journey was to be likened in years to come to the exodus of the children of Israel.

  5. With the departure of the Battalion, another great move in the exodus had been made.

  6. He also rendered efficient service in getting teams and money to assist the Saints in their exodus from Far West, Missouri, to Illinois.

  7. The leaders here were planning an exodus for the coming year.

  8. The great truth of the exodus from Nauvoo was to be sought for rather in the circumstances of that exodus, than in the fact itself.

  9. Should the prospects of industry improve, but agriculture remain depressed, there will be another exodus from the country-side of the best of the young men who have come back to it after the war.

  10. It was the absence of independence combined with long working hours and little occupation for the hours of leisure, which, more than low wages, caused the pre-war exodus from the country.

  11. The exodus has wrung from two or three of the more candid and independent journals, however, a virtual confession of the fiendish practices of bulldozing in their insistance that these practices must be abandoned.

  12. That their exodus is approaching, is felt by the more sagacious Turks themselves.

  13. That end, I firmly believe, will be the exodus of the Turks from Europe.

  14. The people met, resolved, and prescribed thirty days for the exodus of the obnoxious caste.

  15. In all these States, their exodus had either been enforced or was impending.

  16. It was not, however, until after the revolution of 1848 and the beginning of steam navigation on the Atlantic, that any considerable exodus took place.

  17. The exodus to the mines must cease in August owing to the impossibility of reaching the gold fields during the Alaskan cold season, and after August no one will sail for Alaskan ports until about the 15th of April next.

  18. Meantime, Virginia, anxious to check the western exodus from the interior of her state, established a state fund and a board of public works for the improvement of her rivers, including the project of connecting the James and Kanawha.

  19. But the conditions of life were hard for the back-country farmer, and the time was rapidly approaching when the attractions of the western prairies would cause a great exodus from these regions.

  20. Now the exodus was increased by this later colonization.

  21. The loss of a pony from a common simultaneously with their exodus is a suspicious fact occasionally.

  22. In the graphic description of the priestly garments of Aaron, [Exodus xxviii.

  23. Egyptian custom may have been obtained by the Hebrews during their bondage in that country--the Exodus took place 1491, B.

  24. The Egyptians received the above custom of the Israelites, while the latter people sojourned with the former, and consequently previous to their Exodus from the Nation of the Nile.

  25. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," is written in Exodus XXII, 18, and this phrase offered an affirmation of the reality of witchcraft during the period of the Witchcraft Delusion.

  26. For example, this passage from Exodus XXII 18, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

  27. Exodus XX and Exodus XXXIV are the two texts which differ considerably.

  28. From a comparison between Exodus XXXIV and Exodus XX, he is at a loss to decipher which are the true commandments that the Lord gave to Moses.

  29. Moreover, he was clearly forced to the fatal road by the idea that he must set on foot a movement of hundreds of thousands, the picture of the exodus from Egypt with the fantastic figures given in the Old Testament.

  30. It is probable that the exodus gave the proper stimulus for the beginnings of a distinctive Hebrew religion, and was the reason for their finally establishing themselves in Canaan, with Jehovah as their chief deity.

  31. Hardly had it made its appearance when the exodus commenced.

  32. The taste for books of travel which arose in the last century was largely increased by the voyages and discoveries of the English in North America and the subsequent Puritan exodus there.

  33. It was perhaps their first exodus from the nest, for as yet they were without the slightest sense of fear.

  34. The Easter exodus seemed very different indeed from the happy breaking up of last Christmas.

  35. The cause for this early exodus is not far to seek.

  36. The exodus of American girls from New England to California, as teachers first and wives afterwards, which some years ago took place, originated with an American lady, who personally superintended the enterprise.

  37. Yet the continued occupation of Rhode Island, Long Island, and New York City, and the exodus of slaves with other refugees at the time of peace, facilitated the movements in Rhode Island and New York for the abrogation of slavery.

  38. Exodus Chapter 5 Pharao refuseth to let the people go.

  39. Exodus Chapter 10 The eighth plague of the locusts.

  40. Exodus Chapter 31 Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle, and the things belonging thereto.

  41. Exodus Chapter 30 The altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the tabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the composition of the perfume.

  42. Exodus Chapter 2 Moses is born and exposed on the bank of the river; where he is taken up by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son.

  43. Exodus Chapter 22 The punishment of theft, and other trespasses.

  44. Exodus Chapter 38 He maketh the altar of holocaust.

  45. Exodus Chapter 26 The form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances.

  46. Exodus Chapter 7 Moses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and the waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague.

  47. Exodus Chapter 11 Pharao and his people are threatened with the death of their firstborn.

  48. But there was an arrest of military exodus from Scandinavia; and thenceforward the Norse-speaking stocks figure as more or less small and retiring communities.

  49. But without any such organised exodus there were adventurers enough.

  50. Was it not possible that as easy an exodus might befit Him?

  51. In order to understand this simplest mode of sanctification we must look back at the incident that we read in the Book of Exodus (xxxiv.

  52. The legend is a clumsy one, but not more so than that in Exodus xxxiii.

  53. There is no trace of any Englishmen in Denmark or Germany after the exodus to Britain.

  54. We read it in Exodus 9:16, "For this cause have I raised thee up that I might show forth my power in thee.

  55. For, though the Zaddik, who gave his life to helping his neighbor's or his enemy's ass lying under its burden, as enjoined in Exodus xxiii.


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