Identifier: bibleprimeroldte00hult (find matches)
Title: Bible primer, Old Testament, for use in the primary department of Sunday schools
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hult, Adolf, 1869-1943 Augustana synod. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Rock Island, Ill., Augustana book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s sacri-fice. Do you know why? Cains heart was not right withGod. Abels sacrifice pleased God. This made Cain angry.His eyes grew, black and his face dark. One day when Abeland Cain were out in the field, all of a sudden Cain rose upagainst his brother Abel and killed him. Oh, what an awfulsin! The blood of Abel cried to heaven against wicked Cain.God said to Cain: Where is your brother Abel? Caintried to excuse himself. He answered God: I do not know.Am I my brothers keeper? Can not my brother take careof himself? Then God told Cain that He knew very well that Cain hadkilled Abel. Because he had done so, he would have Godagainst him. He would never be happy in this world. ThenCain left his home and his land forever. He went to a far offcountry and built a city. Such was the death of the good Abel. He was the firstmartyr to the faith in the world. Afterwards God gave Adam and Eve a son instead ofAbel. They called him Seth, for he took Abels place. LikeAbel, Seth loved his God. Gen. 4.
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BIBLE PRIMER 15 5. THE DOVE AND THE OLIVE BRANCH. After many hundreds of years had gone by, there werethousands of people on the earth. Most of them did not loveGod. The Lord was sorry He had made man. At last Hesaid He would destroy all men, if they did not turn awayfrom sin. Was there no godly family in the world? Only one, Noahand his family. Noah had the good Seth as one of his fore-fathers. One day God said to Noah: Build yourself a large boat,an ark. Make it water-tight. I mean to send a flood on theearth. Noah made the ark. He took his family and manykinds of animals and went into it. Noah found grace in theeyes of the Lord. That is, God wanted to save Noah. The flood came, as God said. All Gods words come true. Forty days and nights it rained. All the earth was cov-ered with water and the people drowned. Only Noah andhis family were safe. They had listened to Gods words.After a while the earth dried off. Then Noah sent out adove. She came back with a fresh olive leaf in her mo

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