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the pit

«A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless»
«As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: prisoners, the pit
«And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.»
«And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ishmael, the pit
«And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: prisoners, the pit, The Prison, visited
«And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.»
«And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.»
«And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; / And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: the pit
«And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; / The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: owner, the pit
«And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: shearing, the pit

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