Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Genesis xlix. 4.

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Exodus ii. 22.

A land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus iii. 8; Jeremiah xxxii. 22.

Darkness which may be felt.

Exodus x. 21.

The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.

Exodus xiii. 21.