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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notable Women of Olden Time, by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Notable Women of Olden Time Author: Anonymous Release Date: May 5, 2006 [EBook #18316] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTABLE WOMEN OF OLDEN TIME *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Sigal Alon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] NOTABLE WOMEN OF OLDEN TIME. WRITTEN FOR THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. PHILADELPHIA: AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 1122 CHESTNUT STREET. _Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania._ _No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object._ CONTENTS. PAGES THE WIFE--(SARAH) 7 THE WIFE UNLOVED--(HAGAR) 35 THE PARTIAL AND INTRIGUING MOTHER--(REBEKAH) 63 THE RIVAL SISTERS--(LEAH AND RACHEL) 89 THE AFFECTIONATE SISTER--(MIRIAM) 119 THE PROPHETESS--(DEBORAH) 171 THE ARTFUL WOMAN--(JEZEBEL) 187 THE AMBITIOUS WOMAN--(ATHALIAH) 205 THE ORPHAN QUEEN--(ESTHER) 231 THE WIFE--SARAH. [Illustration] Within a few centuries after the flood, while some who had witnessed the sin and the destruction of the antediluvian world were still living, Jehovah saw fit, in accordance with his designs of eternal wisdom, to separate Abraham from his brethren, calling upon him to leave the land of his birth and go out into a strange land, to dwell in a
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