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The Weight
«It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; 'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich, As the gifts of the Wise Ones were, And we are not told whose gift was gold»
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
| Keywords:
fondle, fondles, fur, furred, gold plate, jewel, plate, silk, silks, The Weight, weight
«I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
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ascribe, ascribed, morphology, phenomenon, syntax, The Weight, weight
«I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.»
Author: Miriam Makeba
| About:
Racism,
Spirit
| Keywords:
African, cope, cope with, endowed, native, racism, South, South African, South Africans, The Weight
«On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer: / His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: / One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: / One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: / One kid of the goats for a sin offering: / And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
chargers, first-year, flour, lambs, oxen, prince of, rams, shekel, shekels, Sin offering, spoon, The Goats, The Weight
«On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer: / His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: / One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: / One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: / One kid of the goats for a sin offering: / And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
charger, chargers, first-year, flour, lamb, lambs, Reuben, shekel, shekels, Sin offering, spoon, The Goats, The Weight
«On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: / His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: / One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: / One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: / One kid of the goats for a sin offering: / And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.»
«Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; / Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.»
«Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; / By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.»
