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There was a river crossing called Snake Hill Ford across the Calder – believed to have formed part of the Roman route between Wakefield and Manchester.
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There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
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There God makes a covenant with Abram promising that his descendants shall be as numerous as the stars in the heavens, but that they shall suffer oppression in a foreign land for four hundred years, after which they shall inherit the land " from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
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