Sentences with phrase «number left their homeland»

Good examples of the Akita were jealously guarded and it was not until after World War II that any appreciable number left their homeland.

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The complete narrative of Israel's experience offers a number of explanations for the long delay in the occupation of Canaan; but, for all the variation in detail, there is the emphatic understanding that Israel was, in leaving Egypt, totally unprepared for the difficult and highly hazardous task of entrance and occupation of a new homeland.
The introduction to the ancestral narratives observes a number of parallels between the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and their families: all leave their homeland, quarrel with their brothers, move south to or toward Egypt, receive God's blessing and are buried in the cave of Machpelah.
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