Firmament
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Then Immanuel
said unto
them,
Take heed
and beware of
the
leaven
of the
Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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leaven
(levn)n. 1.
An agent, such as yeast, that causes batter or dough to
rise, especially by fermentation. 2. An
element, influence, or agent that works subtly to
lighten, enliven, or
modify a whole. See Synonyms at catalyst.v. tr. leav-ened,
leav-en-ing, leav-ens. 1. To add a rising agent to. 2. To
cause to rise, especially by fermentation. 3. To pervade with a
lightening, enlivening, or modifying influence.[Middle English, from Old French
levain, from Vulgar Latin *levamen, from Latin levare, to raise. See legwh-.]
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fer-men-ta-tion
(furmn-tashn, -men-)n. 1. Any of a group of chemical
reactions induced by living or nonliving ferments that split complex organic
compounds into relatively simple substances, especially the anaerobic
conversion of sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol by yeast. 2. Unrest;
agitation.
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bdel-li-um
(dele-m)n.
An aromatic gum resin similar to myrrh, produced by certain Asian and African
shrubs or trees of
the genus Commiphora.[Middle English, from Latin, from
Greek bdellion akin to Hebrew bedolah.]
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purge
(purj)v. purged, purg-ing, purg-es.v. tr.
1. To
free from impurities; purify. To remove
(impurities and other elements)
by or as if by cleansing. 2. To rid of sin, guilt, or defilement. 3.
Law. To clear (a person) of a
charge or an imputation. Often used with respect to contempt of court.
4. To
rid (a nation or political party, for example) of people considered undesirable. To get rid of (people considered undesirable). See Synonyms at
eliminate. 5. Medicine. To cause
evacuation of (the bowels). To induce evacuation of the bowels in an
individual.v. intr. 1. To become pure or
clean. 2. Medicine. To undergo or cause an emptying of the bowels.n. 1. The
act or process of purging. 2. Something that purges, especially a medicinal
purgative.[Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin purgare,
from purus, pure. See peu-.]--purg'er n.
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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Therefore
And God
said,
Let
there
be light:
and
there
was
light.
**
and
there
was not
a man
to
till
the
ground.
***
And God
said,
Let there
Be
A
In
the
midst
of
the
waters,
and
let
it
the
waters
from the waters.
**
And God
said,
Let
the waters
under
the
heaven
be
gathered
together unto
one
place,
**
And
the
Lord
appeared
unto Abram,
and
said,
**
and
said,
I
have
gotten
a man
from
the Lord.
***
Unto thy
seed
will
I
give this land:
and
there
builded
he
an
altar
unto the Lord,
who
appeared unto
him.
And he
removed
from
thence
unto a mountain
on
the
east
of
Bethel,
and
pitched
his tent,
having Bethel on the west,
and
Hai
on the east:
and
there
he
builded
an
altar
unto
the Lord,
and
called upon the name of the Lord.
***
And
the
Lord
appeared unto Abram,
and
said,
Unto
thy
seed
will
I
give this
land:
and
there
builded
he
an
altar
unto
the Lord,
who
appeared
unto
him.
**
and
let
the dry land
appear:
and
it was
so.
**
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.
**
And
the
Lord God
planted
a garden
eastward
in
Eden;
and
there
he
put
the
man whom
he
had formed.
**
The name of the
first is Prison:
that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,
where
there
is gold;
And
The
gold
of
that land
is good:
there
is
bdellium
and
the
onyx stone.
**
And they said,
Arise,
that we
may
go up against them:
for
we
have
seen the land,
and,
behold,
it is
very
good:
and
are ye still?
be
not slothful
to go,
and
to enter
to
possess the land.
When
ye go,
ye
shall
come unto a people secure,
and
to
a large land:
for
God
hath
given it into your hands;
a
place
where there
is no want of any
thing
that
is in
the earth.
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