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Proverbs and Quotations

Apple of My Eye

See if you can imagine an appropriate situation for these phrases, all taken from the English Bible published in 1611 and all still used in everyday speech.

6. In the land of the living.

Job 28:13

7. My cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5

8. The signs of the times.

Matthew 16:3

9. A land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:8

10. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

Matthew 7:6

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