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'And David longed, and said, Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate!'
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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'And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The old Hebrew name bêth lehem, meaning "house of bread", has survived till the present day.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
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And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah.
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The eternal manna, the true bread which comes down from heaven was manifested to us for the first in Beth-lehem, the “House of Bread.”
Archive 2007-12-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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The eternal manna, the true bread which comes down from heaven was manifested to us for the first in Beth-lehem, the “House of Bread.”
Putting the Mass back in Christmas Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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‘Adon, scalom lecha: im ischar harob hal hebdeca bimeherah thithen li kikar lehem: chanchat ub laah al Adonai cho nen ral.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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‘Adon, scalom lecha: im ischar harob hal hebdeca bimeherah thithen li kikar lehem: chanchat ub laah al Adonai cho nen ral.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Not a day after he heard of my birth, he sent three wise men to Beth - lehem.
The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997
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