Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years 1842-1845, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Frederick William IV. of Prussia |
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Page 362 - IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness ;and there Israel camped before the mount.
Page 362 - Israel camped before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Page 364 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Page 415 - I am persuaded that Mount Serbal was at one period the chief place of pilgrimage in the peninsula ; and that it was then considered the mountain where Moses received the tables of the law, though I am equally convinced, from a perusal of the Scriptures, that the Israelites encamped in the upper Sinai, and that either Djebel Mousa or Mount St. Catherine is the real...
Page 33 - Weidenback the painters, Frey the painter, Franke the farmer, Bonomi the sculptor, Wild the architect : — Hail to the Eagle, Shelterer of the Cross, the King, the Sun and Rock of Prussia, the Son of the Sun, Freer of the Land, Frederick William the Fourth, the Philopator, his country's Father the Gracious, the Favourite of Wisdom and History, the Guardian of the Rhine stream, chosen by Germany, the Giver of Life. May the Highest God grant the King and his Consort, the Queen Elizabeth, the Life-rich...
Page 34 - Egypt," he wrote from his encampment amongst the tombs in the neighbourhood of the Great Pyramid in 1843 : — " Nor have I yet found a single cartouche that can be safely assigned to a period previous to the fourth dynasty. The builders of the Great Pyramid (Kings of that reputed fourth dynasty) seem to assert their right to form the commencement of monumental history, even if it be clear that they were not the first builders and monumental writers.
Page 415 - Serbal was at one period the chief place of pilgrimage in the peninsula: and that it was then considered the mountain where Moses received the tables of the law; though I am equally convinced, from a perusal of the Scriptures, that the Israelites encamped in the Upper Sinai, and that either Djebel Mousa or Mount St. Catherine is the real Horeb. It is not at all impossible that the proximity of Serbal to Egypt, may at one period have caused that mountain to be the Horeb of the pilgrims...
Page 28 - ... and instruments — yes, even our levers and iron crow-bars ; in short, everything they could seize, in the dark foaming mud-ocean. Besides this, ourselves wet to the skin, without hats, fastening up the weightier things, rushing after the lighter ones, wading into the lake to the waist to fish out what the sand had not yet swallowed; and all this was the work of a quarter of an hour, at the end of which the sun shone radiantly again, and announced the end of this flood by a bright and glorious...
Page 419 - Mount of God was at a very short distance. We seem thus to have a combination of circumstances, which are met with nowhere else, to certify that it was here that Moses halted for the great work he had in view, and that the scene of the lawgiving is here before our eyes in its wild and lonely majesty. The principal objection to this is on the following ground, that there is no open space in the immediate neighbourhood of the Serbal suitable for the encampment of the vast multitude, and from which...
Page 145 - ... in the clearest water. They form a remarkable contrast with the staring dry desert, and have probably deceived many a poor wanderer, as the legend goes. If one be not aware that no water is there, it is quite impossible to distinguish the appearance from the reality. A few days ago I felt quite sure that I perceived an overflowing of the Nile, or a branch near El Meche'ref, and rode towards it, but only found Bahr Sheitan, Satan's water, as the Arabs call it.