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

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When we sat by the fleshpots.

Exodus xvi. 3.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Leviticus xix. 18.

The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

Numbers xxii. 28.

Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Numbers xxiii. 10.

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Numbers xxiv. 5.