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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 24:5

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 24:5 (WEB)

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”

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  • “For as a virgin she conceived Him, as a virgin brought Him forth, and a virgin she continued; but all females they called “women,” by a peculiarity of the Hebrew tongue.” — editor's note: אשה femina mulier omnis ætatis et conditionis, sive nupta est, sive non est. Gesenius, Lex. Heb., vide exempla, especially Gen. xxiv. 5 and Isa. iv. 1. Vid.…

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