[Gutenberg 18316] • Notable Women of Olden Time

Contents include: The Wife-(Sarah), The Wife Unloved-(Hagar), The Partial And Intriguing Mother-(Rebekah), The Rival Sisters-(Leah and Rachel), The Affectionate Sister-(Miriam), The Prophetess-(Deborah), The Artful Woman-(Jezebel), The Ambitious Woman-(Athaliah) and The Orphan Queen-(Esther). "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 far country. He was to pass the rest of his days as a sojourner in a land which should be thereafter given to a people yet unborn, -to a nation which was to descend from him. "