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농민군을 이끌고 고부 관아를 습격하다 1894년 1월 10일 저녁, 전라도 정읍 말목장터에서 울리는 때아닌 풍물소리에 사람들이 모여들기 시작했다. 수천을 헤아리는 군중들이 모이자 그들 앞에 5척 단신의 사내 하나가 섰다. 키는 작았지만, 담력은 산같이 컸고 눈은 샛별같이 빛났다던 전봉..

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, ..

지난 토요일 오후 6시에 바닷가 위에 아담하게 자리잡은 펜션에서 1박 2일간의 초등학교 동창회가 열렸다. 이제 몇몇 친구들은 손자 손녀들을 둔 할아버지 답게 머리도 하얗고 복부에 기름끼가 끼어 풍선처럼 부풀어 오른 노년의 티가 제법 물씬 풍긴다. 그럼에도 불구하고 정이 많고 부..

At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and lay with her; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was..

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to..

하얀 복사용지 위에 연필로 동그라미를 그리고 그 위에 눈과 코 입을 그렸다. 그러나 그대의 얼굴과는 전혀 다른 사람이었다. 그래서 찢어 버리고 다시 그대의 모습을 상상했다. 아무리 그대를 떠오르게 하려고 애썼으나 헛것들만 눈앞에 아른거리고 창밖의 바람소리만 요란하다. 그대의..

This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite- also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth. Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, wh..

Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau." So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar t..

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her. His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. And Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife." When Jacob heard that ..

Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two maidservants. He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. But Esau ran to meet Jaco..