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The Bible in Modern English: Genesis (5) 28-35 Scriptures Biblical Teachings Readings Free
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Wee Ones Bible Stories Recital Free Audiobooks Children's Spiritual Religious Library.
chapter 4 of wheels bible stories by anonymous this librivox recording is in the public domain

moses pharaoh the king of egypt had made a law that every boy baby of the hebrew race should be killed and there was great sorrow because of it but when moses was born his mother managed to hide him for three months then she made a cradle or a little ark and putting him into it carried him down to a river and hid the cradle among the reeds there soon after this pharaoh's daughter came with her maidens to the riverside and when she saw the beautiful child she sent one of her maidens to bring it to her she took the little boy to the palace and named him moses and he became a great man among the egyptians he knew however that he belonged to the hebrew race and when he saw how badly his own people were treated he tried to help them but at last he was obliged to leave egypt and became a shepherd taking care of the flocks of a priest called jethro he also married jethro's daughter after a time god spoke to moses out of a burning bush and told him that he must go and rescue his people from the cruel egyptians moses thought he could not do this but god promised to help him and to show him what he would be able to do with that help god turned the rod which moses carried into a serpent then god told moses to pick the serpent up by the tail and as he did so he became a rod again he showed him another sign also but moses was still afraid because he could not talk well and thought that pharaoh would not listen to him so god told him to take his brother aaron or a spokesman moses and aaron therefore went into egypt where they called together the chief men among their own people the hebrews or israelites and told them what god had commanded moses also did the miracles which god had given him power to do and the people believed that god had sent him after this moses and aaron went to pharaoh and told him that it was the lord's command that he should let the israelites go pharaoh knew nothing about god and became very angry saying that moses and aaron kept the people from their work by telling them such things and he treated the poor israelites worse than before but moses had faith in god so he was able to perform before the king the wonderful things that he had done before his own people still pharaoh would not let the children of israel go then moses turned the waters of the rivers into blood and after that he caused large numbers of frogs to run over the land and through the houses doing great harm he also brought locusts and other insects to be a pest to the people and caused many of the useful animals which belonged to the egyptians to grow sick and die doing all these wonders with the rod which god had given him but pharaoh would not listen to him then god commanded moses again and he brought other plagues upon the egyptians but pharaoh would not give up at last however god sent in still more terrible trouble for the firstborn of every egyptian family and even the firstborn among their flocks died although the israelites who were constantly praying to the lord and making sacrifices were spared as they had been all the time then pharaoh was frightened into obeying god and he let the israelites go so they started it once for the land of canaan and the lord guided them by a cloud which at night looked like a pillar of fire when the israelites had reached the red sea they found that pharaoh was pursuing them with a large army but god commanded moses to stretch forth his roth over the sea he did so and the waters parted making a high wall upon either side so that the children of israel passed through and reached the other side in safety pharaoh and his host followed and were all drowned when the children of israel saw that they were safe they sang a beautiful song of praise to god and then they went on their way again after they had traveled...

The Children's Bible Sherman Noah And The Great Flood Free Children's Audiobooks Kids' Library.
chapter five of the children final by henry a sherman this librivox recording is in the public domain noah and the great flood when jehovah saw that men were growing more wicked in the world and that their thoughts were always evil he was greatly grieved and regretted that he had made man therefore jehovah said i will completely destroy all living beings from off the earth for i regret that i have made them but noah had won god's favor so jehovah said to noah i have decided to put an end to all living beings for the earth is filtered from wicked acts i am going to destroy him from the earth make yourself an ark for cyprus wood build rooms in the ark and cover it within and without with pitch this is how you shall build it the ark shall be 500 feet long 80 feet wide and 50 feet high make a roof for it and place the door on the side build it with lower second and third stories where i am about to bring floods of water upon the earth to destroy every living creature and which is the breath of life every creature that is on the earth shall die

then jehovah said to noah enter with all your household into the ark for i see that of all the people who are now alive you alone are upright of all the beasts that are fit for food and sacrifice you shall take with you seven the male and the females but of the beasts that are not fit for food and sacrifice too the male and the female one of the wild birds that are fit for food and sacrifice seven you keep each alive on all of the earth after seven days i will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights and i will destroy every living thing that i have made then noah did all that jehovah commanded him when the waters of the flood came upon the earth he his sons his wife and his son's wives together with the beasts that were fit for food and sacrifice and the beasts that were not fit and the birds and everything that creeps upon the ground entered the ark because of the waters of the flood

the rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights and jehovah shut noah in new york and the waters rose higher and higher and raised up the ark and it was lifted high above the earth all creatures living on the land died noah only was left and they who were with him in the earth then god remembered noah and all the beasts of all the animals that were with them in the ark and god caused the wind to blow over the earth and the flood went down and the rain from earth cease and waters with through more and more from the land after 40 days noah opened the window of the ark and sent out a raven and it kept going to and fro until the waters were dried upon the he also sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone from the surface of the earth but the dove found no rest for her foot and so returned to him through the ark where the waters covered the whole earth therefore noah reached out his hand and took her and brought her back into the ark then he waited seven days longer and again sent out the dove from the ark and the dove came into him at dusk and in her mouth was a freshly front column so noah knew that the waters had gone from the earth when he waited seven days more and again sent out the belt but it did not return so noah took off the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the surface of the ground was dry then he with his sons his wife and his son's wives went out of the ark and noah built an altar to jehovah and took one of every beast and bird that was fit for sacrifice and offered burnt offerings on the altar but jehovah said to himself i will never again condemn the ground because of man nor will i again destroy every living creature as i have done while the earth remains sea time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night shall not cease and god said this is the sign of the solemn agreement that i make for all time between me and you and every...

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 8:1 Famous Story Free Audiobook Children's Library.

chapter 8 part 1 of the water babies this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by corey samuel the water babies by charles kingsley chapter 8 and last part 1

come to me o ye children for i hear you at your play and the questions that perplexed me have vanished quite a way ye open the eastern windows that look towards the sun where thoughts are singing swallows and the brooks of mourning run for what are all our contrivings and the wisdom of our books when compared with your caresses and the gladness of your looks ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said for ye are living poems and all the rest are dead

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here begins the never to be too much studied account of the 999th part of the wonderful things which tom saw on his journey to the other end of nowhere which all good little children are requested to read that if ever they get to the other end of nowhere as they may very well probably do they may not burst out laughing or try to run away or do any other silly vulgar thing which may offend mrs b dunbar as you did now as soon as tom had left peace pool he came to the white lap of the great sea mother ten thousand fathoms deep where she makes world pap all day long for the steam giants to need and the fire giants to bake till it has risen and hardened into mountain loaves and island cakes and there tom was very near being kneaded up in the wild pap and turned into a fossil water baby which would have astonished the geological society of new zealand some hundreds of thousands of years hence 4. as he walked along in the silence of the sea twilight on the soft white ocean floor he was aware of a hissing and a roaring and a thumping and a pumping as of all the steam engines in the world at once and when he came near the water grew boiling hot not that that hurt him in the least but it also grew as foul as gruel and every moment he stumbled over dead shells and fish and sharks and seals and whales which had been killed by the hot water and at last he came to the great sea serpent himself lying dead at the bottom and as he was too thick to scramble over tom had to walk round him three quarters of a mile and more which put him out of his path sadly and when he had got round he came to the place called stop and there he stopped and just in time for he was on the edge of a vast hole in the bottom of the sea up which was rushing and roaring clear steam enough to work all the engines in the world at once so clear indeed that it was quite light at moments and tom could see almost up to the top of the water above and down below into the pit for nobody knows how far but as soon as he bent his head over the edge he got such a wrap on the nose from pebbles that he jumped back again for the steam as it rushed up rasped away the sides of the hole and hurled it up into the sea in a shower of mud and gravel and ashes and then it spread all around and sank again and covered in the dead fish so fast that before tom had stood there five minutes he was buried in silt up to his ankles and began to be afraid that he should have been buried alive and perhaps he would have been but that while he was thinking the whole piece of ground on which he stood was torn off and blown upwards and away flew tom a mile up through the sea wondering what was coming next at last he stopped thump and found himself tight in the legs of the most wonderful bergie which he had ever seen it had i don't know how many wings as big as the sails of a windmill and spread out in a ring like them and with them it hovered over the steam which rushed up as a ball hovers over the top of a fountain and for every wing above it had a leg below with a claw like a comb at the tip and a nostril at the root and in the...

Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children 3 Hynde Horn Free Audiobook Kids' Library

chapter 3 of stories from the ballads told to the children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by faith anne gibson stories from the ballads told to the children by mary esther miller mcgregor hindhorn hindhorn was a little prince it was because he was so courteous so kind a little lad that prince horn was always called hindhorn for hind or hind in the days of long ago meant just all the beautiful things which these words courteous kind mean in these days hindhorn lived a happy life in his home in the distant east for it was in the bright glowing land of the sun that his father king allah framed the queen god loved her little son too well to spoil him she wished him to learn to share his toys to play his games with other boys thus much to the delight of little prince horn two boys almost as old as he was came to live with him in the palace i thought and feikinald were their names they were merry playmates for the little prince and as the years rolled by athom and feikeneld thought there was no one to equal their prince hindhorn they would serve him loyally when he was king and they were men all went well in the palace of this far off eastern land until hind horn was 15 years of age then war came without warning into this country a blue sky and blazing sun murray king of the turks landed in the kingdom of king alof who was all unprepared for fight and king murray with his fierce soldiers pillaged the land killed the good king alof seized his crown and placed it on his own head then poor queen godlet fled from the palace taking with her hind horn and his two playmates prince alpha and prince spikenald i cannot tell you what became of the beautiful queen but murray the cruel king captured hindhorn and made him and his two playfells prisoners what should he do with prince horn who was heir to the kingdom he had seized should he kill the lad he wondered yet cruel as king where he was he could not do so dastardly a deed but hind horn was tall and strong and hind horn was loved by the people he must certainly be sent out of the country so king murray planned and king murray plotted and at length he thought of a way by which he hoped to be forever rid of the gallant prince and his two companions he ordered the prisoners to be brought down to the seashore and there the lads were thrust into an open boat and pushed out to sea it seemed as though they must perish for king murray had given orders that no provisions were to be placed in the boat there was neither helm nor or for the little craft the lads could do nothing to guide her on her dangerous course now they would drift gently on the swell of the quiet sea now they would whirl goodly on the crest of a storm-tossed wave faint and weary grew hindhorn and his two companions it seemed to them that they would perish from hunger or be devoured by the storm yet every day the little boat was drifted by soft breezes or driven by wild storm clouds westward and always westward at length one day a great wave came and lifted it high up onto the coast the boys had reached scotland the country over which king elmer ruled now it chanced that king elmer was passing along the seacoast and seeing the lads lying there pale and bruised he ordered that they should be carried to the palace that they might be fed and that their wounds might be bathed so carefully where they tended in the palace of king elmer that soon rose is bloomed again on the cheeks of hind horn and his two companions strength crept back to their bruised bodies air many wings had passed all in the palace loved hind horn and knew that he was a prince worthy of his name when the prince was well king elmer listened to the story the lad had to tell the story of his ruined home his lost kingdom his suffering at the hands of the...

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 12 Final Chapter Free Kids' Audiobook Children's Library.
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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 12.

it would be interesting no doubt to describe the feelings of lord yalding as he followed mabel and jimmy through his ancestral halls but i have no means of knowing at all what he felt yet one must suppose that he felt something bewilderment perhaps mixed with a faint wonder and a desire to pinch himself to see if he were dreaming or he may have pondered the rival questions am i mad are they mad without being at all able to decide which he ought to try to answer let alone deciding what in either case the answer ought to be you see the children did seem to believe in the odd stories they told and the wish had come true and the ghost had appeared he must have thought but all this is vain i don't really know what he thought any more than you do nor can i give you any clue to the thoughts and feelings of mademoiselle i only know that she was very happy but anyone would have known that if they had seen her face perhaps this is as good a moment as any to explain that when her guardian had put her in a convent so that she should not sacrifice her fortune by marrying a poor lord her guardian had secured that fortune to himself by going off with it to south america then having no money left mademoiselle had to work for it so she went out as governess and took the situation she did take because it was near lord yalding's home she wanted to see him even though she thought he had forsaken her and did not love her anymore and now she had seen him i dare say she thought about some of these things as she went along through his house her hand held in his but of course i can't be sure

jimmy's thoughts of course i can read like any old book he thought now he'll have to believe me that lord yalding should believe him had become quite unreasonably the most important thing in the world to jimmy he wished that gerald and kathleen were there to share his triumph but they were helping mabel's aunt to cover the grand furniture up and so were out of what followed not that they missed much for when mabel proudly said now you'll see and the others came close round her in the little paneled room there was a pause and then nothing happened at all

there's a secret spring here somewhere said mabel fumbling with fingers that had suddenly grown hot and damp where said lord yalding here said mabel impatiently only i can't find it and she couldn't she found the spring of the secret panel under the window all right but that seemed to everyone dull compared with the jewels that everyone had pictured and two at least had seen but the spring that made the oak panelling slide away and displayed jewels plainly to any eye worth a king's ransom this could not be found more it was simply not there there could be no doubt of that every inch of the paneling was felt by careful fingers the earnest protests of mabel and jimmy died away presently in a silence made painful by the hotness of one's ears the discomfort of not liking to meet anyone's eyes and the resentful feeling that the spring was not behaving in at all a sportsman-like way and that in a word this was not cricket you see said lord yalding severely now you've had your joke if you call it a joke and i've had enough of the whole silly business give me the ring it's mine i suppose since you say you found it somewhere here and don't let's hear another word about all this rubbish of magic and enchantments gerald's got the ring said mabel miserably then go and fetch him said lord yalding both of you the melancholy pair retired and lord yalding spent the time of their absence in explaining to mademoiselle how very unimportant jewels were compared...

Kehtayho Selected Ghazals of Ghalib Free International Kids Library Children's Audiobooks.
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Poems Every Child Should Know Little Orphan Annie Free Audiobook Kids' Listening Library.
poems every child should know edited by mary e burt section 15 read for librivox.org by kara shallenberg this section contains the following poems little orphaned annie and oh captain my captain

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little orphaned annie little orphaned annie certainly earns her board and keep when she has washed the dishes swept up the crumbs driven the chickens from the porch and done all the other odds and ends of work on a farm the poet james whitcomb riley born 1853 has shown how truly a little child may be over taxed and yet preserve a brave spirit and keen imagination children invariably love to learn this poem

little orphaned annies come to our house to stay and wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away and shoo the chickens off the porch and dust the hearth and sweep and make the fire and bake the bread and earn her board and keep and all us other children when the supper things is done we set around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun listening to the witch tales that annie tells about and the goblins that gets you if you don't watch out once there was a little boy who wouldn't say his prayers and when he went to bed at night away upstairs his mammy heard him holler and his daddy heared him ball and when they turned the kivers down he wasn't there at all and they seeked him in the rafter room and cubbyhole and press and seeked him up the chimbley flu and everywhere's i guess but all they ever found was this tis pants and roundabout and the goblins will get you if you don't watch out and one time a little girl at all is laugh and grin and make fun of everyone and all her blood and kin and once when there was company and all folks was there she mocked them and shocked them and said she didn't care and just as she kicked her heels and turned to run and hide they was two great black things are standing by her side and they snatched her through the ceiling for she knowed what she's about and the goblins will get you if you don't watch out and little orphaned annie says when the blaze is blue and the lampwick sputters and the wind goes and you hear the crickets quit and the moon is gray and the lightning bugs in dew is all squenched away you better mind your parents and your teachers fond and deer and cherish them it loves you and dry the orphan's tear and hep the poor and needy ones at cluster's all about or the goblins will get you if you don't watch out james whitcomb riley

oh captain my captain oh captain my captain by walt whitman 1819-1892 is placed here out of compliment to a little boy aged 10 who wanted to recite it once a week for a year this song and edwin markham's poem on lincoln are two of the greatest tributes ever paid to that hero

oh captain my captain our fearful trip is done the ship has weathered every rack the prize we sought is one the port is near the bells i hear the people all exalting while follow eyes the steady keel the vessel grim and daring but o heart heart heart o the bleeding drops of red where on the deck my captain lies fallen cold and dead o captain my captain rise up and hear the bells rise up for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills for you bouquets and ribbon wreaths for you the shores are crowding for you they call the swaying mass their eager faces turning here captain dear father this arm beneath your head it is some dream that on the deck you've fallen cold and dead my captain does not answer his lips are pale and still my father does not feel my arm he has no pulse nor will the ship is anchored safe and sound its voyage closed and done from fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object one exalt o shores and ring o bells but i with mournful tread walk the deck my captain lies fallen cold and dead walt whitman

end of section 15 read by kara schallenberg on october 12 2006 in oceanside...

The Book of Art for Young People Richard ll Free Audiobooks Humanities Arts Easy Listen.
chapter 3 richard ii this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the book of art for young people by agnes ethel conway and sir martin conway chapter 3 richard ii our first picture is a portrait of richard ii on his coronation day in the year 1377 when he was 10 years old it is the earliest one selected and the eyes of those who see it for the first time will surely look surprised the jewel-like effect of the sapphire winged angels and coral robed richard against the golden background is not at all what we are accustomed to see nowadays it may take some time and a little patience before we can cast ourselves back to the year 1377 and look at the picture with the eyes of the person who painted it let us begin with a search for his purpose and meaning at least the picture is a diptych that is to say it is a painting done upon two wings or shutters hinged so as to allow if they're being closed together you have no doubt been wondering why i called it a portrait for the picture is far from being what today would commonly be described as such richard himself is not even the most conspicuous figure and he is kneeling and praying to the virgin what should we think if any living sovereign ordering a state portrait had himself portrayed surrounded on one side by his predecessors on the throne and on the other side by the virgin and child and angels but in the 14th century it was nothing strange that the virgin and child the angels john the baptist edward the confessor edmund the martyr and richard ii should be thus depicted when we have realized that it was usual for a royal patron to command and an artist to paint such an assemblage of personages as though all of them were then living and in one another's presence we have learned something significant and impressive about a way of thinking in the middle ages richard ii thought of himself as the successor of a long line of kings appointed by the divine power to rule a small portion of the divine territories so what more natural than that he as the newly reigning sovereign should have his portrait painted surrounded by his holiest predecessors upon the throne and in the act of dedicating his kingdom to the virgin mary in an account given of his coronation we read that after the ceremony in westminster abbey richard went to the shrine of our lady at pew nearby where he made a special offering to our lady of 11 angels each wearing the king's badge one for each of the eleven years of his young life what form this offering of angels took we know not they may have been little wooden figures or coins with an angel stamped upon them but it is reasonable to connect the offering with this very picture of our lady and the angels the king's special badges were the white heart and the collar of broom pods which you see embroidered all over his magnificent red robe the white heart is pinned in the form of a jewel beneath his collar and each of the eleven angels bears the badge upon her shoulder and the collar of broom pods round her neck one of the king's angels gives the royal standard of england with the cross of saint george on it to the infant christ in token of richard's dedication of his kingdom to the virgin and child edward iii died at mid-summer 1377 and richard succeeded him in his 11th year having been born on january 6th 1367. it is necessary to note the exact day of the year when these events took place for it can have importance in determining the saint whom a personage chiefly honored as patron and protector in this instance saint john the baptist whose feast occurs on june 23rd near to the day of richard's accession obviously stands as patron saint of the young king next to him is king edward the confessor the founder of westminster abbey who was canonized for his sanctity and who points to...

The Book of Art for Young People Thirteenth Century Europe Free Audiobook Kids' Library.
chapter 2 the 13th century in europe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the book of art for young people by agnes ethel conway and sir martin conway chapter 2 the 13th century in europe before we give our whole attention to the first picture of which the original was painted in england in 1377 let us imagine ourselves in the year 1200 making a rapid tour through the chief countries of europe to see for ourselves how the people lived the first thing that will strike us on our journey is the contrast between the grandeur of the churches and public buildings and the insignificance of most of the houses some of the finest churches in england built in the style of architecture called norman one or more of which you may have seen date before the year 1200 as for example durham cathedral and the knaves of norwich ellie and peterborough cathedrals the great churches abroad were also beautiful and more elaborately decorated in the north with sculpture and painting in the south with marble and mosaic the towns competed one with another in erecting them finer and larger and in decorating them as magnificently as they could this was done because the church was a place which the people used for many other purposes besides sunday services in the 12th 13th and 14th centuries the parish church on weekdays as well as on sundays was a very useful and agreeable place to most of the parishioners the holy days or saints days holidays indeed were times of rejoicing and festivity and the church processions and services were pleasant events in the lives of many who had few entertainments and who for the most part could neither read nor write printing was not yet invented at least not in europe and as every book had to be written out by hand copies of books were rare and only owned by the few who could read them so that stories were mostly handed down by word of mouth the same being told by mother to child for many generations the favorites were stories of the saints and martyrs of the catholic church for of course we are speaking now of times long before the reformation the old testament stories and all the stories of the life of christ and his apostles were well known too and just as we never tire of reading our favorite books over and over again our forefathers of 1200 wanted to see on the walls of their churches representations of the stories which they could not read their daily thoughts were more occupied with the infant christ the saints and the angels than ours generally are they thought of themselves as under the protection of some saint who would plead with god the father for them if they asked him for god himself seemed too high or remote to be appealed to always directly he was approached with awe the saints the virgin and the infant christ with love we must realize this difference before we can well understand a picture painted in the 12th 13th or 14th centuries nor can we look at one without feeling that the artist and the people for whom he painted so loved the holy personages they thought about them always not only at stated times and on sundays and never tired of looking at pictures of them and their doings it is sometimes said that only catholics can understand medieval art because they feel towards the saints as the old painters did but it is possible for anyone to realize how in those far-off days the people felt and it is this that we must try to do the religious fervor of the middle ages was not a sign of great virtue among all the people some were far more cruel savage and unrestrained than we are today very wicked men even became powerful dignitaries in the church but it was the church that fostered the impulses of pity and charity in a fierce age and some of the saints of the 13th and 14th centuries such as saint francis of...