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Genesis (Greek: "birth," "origin") is the first book of the Torah, the Tanakh, and the Old Testament of the Bible. Jewish tradition considers the Pentateuch to have been written by Moses, so Genesis is sometimes also called The First Book of Moses. Look up Genesis, genesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ...
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The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...
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Genesis recounts a history of the world from the Creation to the descent of the Children of Israel into Ancient Egypt. It contains some of the best-known stories of the Old Testament, including Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the biblical Patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob—and the story of Joseph. It also has important clues to ancient Israelite cosmology and theology, notably the Covenant linking God to his Chosen People and the people to the Promised Land. This article is about the biblical text. ...
The Children of Israel, or Bnei Yisrael (×‘× ×™ ישר×ל) in Hebrew (also Bnai Yisrael, Bnei Yisroel or Bene Israel) is a Biblical term for the Israelites. ...
Khafres Pyramid and the Great Sphinx of Giza, built about 2550 BC during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom,[1] are enduring symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was a civilization in Northeastern Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River...
Michelangelos Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel. ...
Cain and Abel redirect here. ...
This article is about the vessel described in the Hebrew scriptures. ...
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The Patriarchs, known as the Avot in Hebrew, are Abraham, his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. ...
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Joseph may refer to: People with the name Joseph: Joseph (name), about the given name Joseph (given name), for people with the given name Joseph Joseph (surname), for people with the last name Joseph Saint Joseph (disambiguation), for saints named Joseph Joseph (Hebrew Bible) In places: Joseph, Utah Joseph, Oregon...
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Biblical scholars view Genesis as a composite text made up of originally independent and often parallel sources, few if any of them earlier than the 10th century BC, and that it did not reach its final form until the 5th century BC.
Christians link many events and people in Genesis to Jesus Christ, who is said to be the "new Adam" with a new covenant. Muslims revere Adam, Abraham, and other figures in Genesis but regard the book as a corrupted version of Allah's true revelation.(eg.They regard these figures as prophets who did not commit any grave sins but were sent from time to time to guide mankind). Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box: Christianity is...
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There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...
Allah is the Arabic language word for God. ...
The title "Genesis" comes from the Greek Γένεσις, meaning "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" or "origin". In Hebrew, Genesis is called בְּרֵאשִׁית, B'reshit or Bərêšîth,[1]"in the beginning", after the first words of the text in Hebrew, and in line with the other four books of the Pentateuch. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box: Note: Judaism...
A biblical canon is a list of Biblical books which establishes the set of books which are considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular Jewish or Christian community. ...
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This article is about the second book in the Torah. ...
Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah (five books of Moses). ...
The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew ba-midbar במדבר, i. ...
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The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in both the Hebrew Tanakh and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ...
Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטי×) is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. ...
Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab by William Blake, 1795 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Ruth in Boazs Field, 1828 The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, the Scroll of Ruth) is one of the books of the Ketuvim (Writings) of the Tanakh (the...
The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Shmuel ספר שמו×ל), are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaisms Hebrew Bible) and also of the Old Testament (of Christianity). ...
The Books of Kings (‎) is a part of Judaisms Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. ...
The Book of Chronicles is a book in the Hebrew Bible (also see Old Testament). ...
The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew Tanakh. ...
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The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanach and to Christians as the Old Testament. ...
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The Book of Job (×יוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. ...
Psalms (from the Greek: Psalmoi) (originally meaning songs sung to a harp, from psallein play on a stringed instrument, Ψαλμοί; Hebrew: Tehilim, תהילי×, or praises) is a book of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh or Old Testament. ...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Writings of the Old Testament. ...
Ecclesiastes, Qohelet in Hebrew, is a book of the Hebrew Bible. ...
Song of Solomon is also the title of a novel by Toni Morrison. ...
This article is about the Book of Isaiah. ...
The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah (יִרְמְיָהוּ YirmÉ™yÄhÅ« in Hebrew), is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaisms Tanakh, and later became a part of Christianitys Old Testament. ...
The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת ××™×›×”) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ...
Book Of Ezekiel is rapper Freekey Zekeys debut album and debut on Diplomat Records/Asylum. ...
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A minor prophet is a book in Minor Prophets section of the Hebrew Bible also known to Christians as the Old Testament. ...
Tobias and the Angel, by Filippino Lippi The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox and Anglican biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics...
Judith with the Head of Holophernes, by Christophano Allori, 1613 (Pitti Palace, Florence) The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. ...
1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which was written by a Jewish (pre-Christian) author, probably about 100 BC, after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom. ...
2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jews revolt against Antiochus and concludes with the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work. ...
Wisdom or the Wisdom of Solomon is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. ...
The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely Sirach), also called Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes) by some Christians, is a book written circa 180–175 BC. The author, Yeshua ben Sira, was a Jew who had been living in Jerusalem...
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Letter of Jeremiah is an Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry by demonstrating its unreasonableness. ...
The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah (יִרְמְיָהוּ YirmÉ™yÄhÅ« in Hebrew), is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaisms Tanakh, and later became a part of Christianitys Old Testament. ...
The additions to Daniel comprise of three additional chapters appended to the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel from the Greek Septuagint. ...
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By far the most important of the many synods held at Jerusalem (see Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon, 2nd ed. ...
1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Old Testament regarded as a deuterocanonical book in Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, but rejected as apocryphal by Jews, Catholics, and most Protestants. ...
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The Biblical book 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books. ...
The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. ...
This short work of only 15 verses purports to be the penitential prayer of the Judean king Manasseh, who is recorded in the Bible as one of the most idolatrous (2 Kings 21:1-18). ...
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until it was granted its own Patriarch by Cyril VI, the Coptic Pope, in 1959. ...
In the Septuagint and for Eastern Orthodox Christians, 2 Esdras refers to the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah. ...
The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלי×), sometimes called the Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work. ...
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A series of three books in the Ethiopian Biblical canon. ...
4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah when combined with the Epistle of Jeremy, is a text regarded as apocryphal by all Christian denominations except for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. ...
Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ...
The Peshitta is the standard version of the Bible in the Syriac language. ...
Psalms 152 to 155 are additional Psalms found in the Syriac Peshitta, in Greek Septuagint manuscripts, and in the Qumran scrolls: 11QPs(a)154,155. ...
2 Baruch or the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphical text written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE, after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE. It is not part of the canon of either the Jewish or most Christian...
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Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ...
Neviim [× ×‘×™××™×] (Heb: Prophets) is the second of the three major sections in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), following the Torah and preceding Ketuvim (writings). ...
Ketuvim is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). ...
Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ...
This article is about the second book in the Torah. ...
Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah (five books of Moses). ...
The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew ba-midbar במדבר, i. ...
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[edit] Summary Rolf Rendtorff's division of Genesis into a primeval history and Patriarchal cycles - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph - is followed here for convenience in organising the summary. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
[edit] Primeval history "In the beginning God[2] created the heavens and the earth.[3] The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters." God makes the first day and night; the "firmament" separating "the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament;" dry land and seas and plants and trees which grew fruit with seed; the sun, moon and stars in the firmament give light upon the earth; creates air-breathing sea creatures and birds; and on the sixth day, makes "the beasts of the earth according to their kinds." "Then God said, Let us make man in our image ... in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."[4] On the seventh day God rests from the task of completing the heavens and the earth: "So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation." At the bottom of the hands, the two letters on each hand combine to form יהוה (YHVH), the name of God. ...
The Deeps is the English term for the Hebrew Tehwom, found in the opening verses of the Book of Genesis. ...
Firmament is a name for the sky or the heavens, generally used in the context of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. ...
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God forms a man "of dust from the ground,"[5] and breathes into the man's nostrils, "and man became a living being."[6] God sets the man in the Garden of Eden and permits him to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, "for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." God makes "every beast of the field and every bird of the air, ... and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name ... but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him." God causes the man to sleep, and makes a woman from one of the man's ribs, and the man awakes and names his companion Woman, "because she was taken out of Man."[7] "And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed."[8] Life on Earth redirects here. ...
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In the Bibles Book of Genesis, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden from which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat. ...
The serpent tells the woman that she will not die if she eats the fruit of the tree: "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,[9] knowing good and evil." So the woman eats and gives to the man who also eats. "Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." God curses the serpent: "upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life;" the woman he punishes with pain in childbirth and with subordination to man: "your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you;" and the man he punishes with a life of toil: "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground." The man names his wife Eve,[10] "because she was the mother of all living." "Behold," says God, "the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil," and expels the couple from Eden, "lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever," and the gate of Eden is sealed by a cherub and a flaming sword "to guard the way to the tree of life."[11] For other uses, see Serpent (disambiguation). ...
Bouguereaus LInnocence (Innocence). Both the child and the lamb represent fragility and peacefulness, as seen in religious art. ...
The Tree-of-Life is a fictional plant (the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste) in Larry Nivens Known Space universe, for which all Hominids have an in-built genetic craving. ...
CHERUB is a series of childrens books written by the author Robert Muchamore about a group of children who are trained to be agents working for the British Government in the top secret organisation known as CHERUB. It is similar to the British security service MI5, and is based...
Delacroix painting of an angel expelling Adam and Eve with a flaming sword A flaming sword is a sword glowing with flame due to some supernatural power. ...
Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Abel, the first a farmer, the second a shepherd. Cain murders his brother, and, asked by God what has become of Abel, replies, "Am I my brother's keeper?" God then curses Cain: "When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth." Cain fears that whoever meets him will kill him, but God places a mark on Cain, with the promise that "if any slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." Cain settles in the land of Nod,[12] "away from the presence of the LORD.[13] Michelangelos Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel. ...
Cain and Abel redirect here. ...
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Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormons painting titled Cain flying before Jehovahs Curse, c. ...
The descendants of Cain are Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methushael, and Lamech. Seth is born to replace Abel.[14] Enoch (from Hebrew: ×—Ö²× ×•Ö¹×šÖ°, Standard Tiberian meaning initiated, dedicated, disciplined; Greek: ενωχ, ; traditional English: Enoch) is a Hebrew name. ...
Irad (עִירָד Wild ass; dragon, Standard Hebrew ʿIrad, Tiberian Hebrew ʿÎrāḏ), in the Bible, was one of the antediluvian patriarchs, son of Enoch, grandson of Cain and the father of Mehujael. ...
Mehujael is the Biblical name given in Genesis 4:18 of a descendant of Cain, son of Irad and father of Methusael. ...
Methusael (Hebrew מְתוּש×Ö¸×ֵל champion of God, Standard Hebrew MÉ™tuÅ¡aʼel, Tiberian Hebrew MəṯûšÄʼēl) is the Biblical name given in Genesis 4:18 of a descendant of Cain, son of Mehujael and father of Lamech. ...
Lamech (in Hebrew לֶמֶך Lemmech) is the name of two men appearing in the genealogies of Adam in the book of Genesis. ...
This article is about the Biblical Seth. ...
The generations of Adam are described, including Enoch, who "walked with God...[and] was no more, for God took him",[15] Methuselah, and Noah. The ante-antediluvian Patriarchs are notable for their extreme longevity, with Methuselah living 969 years. The list ends with the birth of Noah's sons, from whom all humanity is descended.[16] Enoch (Hebrew: ×—Ö²× ×•Ö¹×šÖ°; Tiberian: , Standard: ) is a name occurring twice in the generations of Adam. ...
Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew: / Standard / Tiberian / ; Man of the dart, or alternatively when he dies/died, it will be sent/has been sent) is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. ...
This article is about the biblical Noah. ...
God sets the days of man at 120 years.[17] "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown."[18] For other uses, see Nephilim (disambiguation). ...
There are several theories concerning the identity of the sons of God (bnei elohim, ×‘× ×™ ×”×להי×, contrasted with daughters of men) identified in the book of Genesis. ...
Angered by the wickedness of mankind, God selects Noah,[19] "a righteous man, blameless in his generation," and commands him to build an Ark, and to take on it his family and representatives of the animals.[20] God destroys the world with a Flood,[21] and afterwards enters into a covenant with Noah and his descendants, the entire human race, promising never again to destroy mankind in this way.[22] This article is about the vessel described in the Hebrew scriptures. ...
Flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. ...
Noah plants a vineyard, drinks wine, and falls into a drunken sleep. Ham "uncovers his fathers nakedness," and Noah places a curse on Ham's son Canaan, saying that he and all his descendants shall henceforth be slaves to Ham's brothers Shem and Japheth[23] Ham (×—Ö¸×, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew , , Geez Kam), according to the Genealogies of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. ...
The Drunkenness of Noah by Giovanni Bellini, depicting Ham (center) laughing at his father, while Shem and Japheth cover him. ...
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Shem (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ; Greek: Σημ, Sēm ; Arabic: ; Geez: Sham ; renown; prosperity; name) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. ...
Japheth (Hebrew. ...
The seventy generations of the descendants of Noah are named, "and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood."[24] Men decide to build "a tower with its top in the heavens" in the land of Shinar, "lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." God fears the ambition of mankind: "This is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." And so mankind is scattered over the face of the earth, and the city "was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth."[25][26] The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ...
This article is about the Biblical story. ...
Shinar (Hebrew Å in`ar, Septuagint Î£ÎµÎ½Î½Î±Î±Ï Sennaar) is a broad designation applied to Mesopotamia, occurring eight times in the Hebrew Bible. ...
The Generations of Shem brings the biblical genealogy down to the generation of Abraham.[27]
[edit] Abraham Terah leaves Ur of the Chaldees with his son Abram,[28] Abram's wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot, the son of Abram's brother Haran, towards the land of Canaan. They settle in the city of Haran, where Terah dies.[29] God commands Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you, and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves." So Abram and his people and flocks journey to the land of Canaan, where God appears to Abram and says, "To your descendants I will give this land.[30] Terah or Térach (Hebrew: תֶּרַח / תָּרַח, Standard / Tiberian / ; Wanderer; loiterer) // Terah was the father of Abraham mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. ...
Ur KaÅ›dim or Ur of the Chaldees (×ור כשדי×) is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham was said to have been born. ...
For other uses, see Abraham (name) and Abram (disambiguation). ...
Engraving of Sarah by Hans Collaert from c. ...
According to the Bible and the Quran, Lot (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: لوط, ; Hidden, covered[1]) was the nephew of the patriarch, Abraham or Abram. ...
Haran (הָרָן) was a son of Terah, and brother of Nahor and Abram. ...
Abram is forced by famine to go into Egypt, where Pharaoh takes possession of his wife, the beautiful Sarai, who Abram has misrepresented as his sister. God strikes the king and his house with plagues, so that he returns Sarai and expels Abram and all his people from Egypt.[31] For other uses, see Pharaoh (disambiguation). ...
Abram returns to Canaan and separates from Lot in order to put an end to disputes about pasturage. He gives Lot the valley of the Jordan River, as far as Sodom, whose people "were wicked, great sinners against the LORD." To Abram God says, "Lift up your eyes, and look ... for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever. I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted. Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."[32] The Jordan River runs along the border between the West Bank and the Kingdom of Jordan Northern part of the Great Rift Valley as seen from space (NASA) The Jordan River Road sign In spring The Jordan River (Hebrew: × ×”×¨ הירדן nehar hayarden, Arabic: نهر الأردن nahr al-urdun) is a river in Southwest...
Lot is taken prisoner during a war between the King of Shinar[33] and the King of Sodom and their allies, "four kings against five." Abram rescues Lot and is blessed by Melchizedek, king of Salem (the future Jerusalem) and "priest of God Most High". Abram refuses the King of Sodom's offer of the spoils of victory, saying: "I have sworn to the LORD God Most High, maker of heaven and earth, that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, lest you should say, `I have made Abram rich.'"[34] Shinar (Hebrew Å in`ar, Septuagint Î£ÎµÎ½Î½Î±Î±Ï Sennaar) is a broad designation applied to Mesopotamia, occurring eight times in the Hebrew Bible. ...
Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek — by Dieric Bouts the Elder, 1464–67 Melchizedek or Malki-tzédek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק / מַלְכִּי־צָדֶק, Standard Hebrew Malki-ẓédeq / Malki-ẓádeq, Tiberian Hebrew Malkî-ṣéá¸eq / Malkî-á¹£Äá¸eq), sometimes written Malchizedek, Melchisedec, Melchisedech, Melchisedek or Melkisedek, is a figure mentioned by various sects of both Christian and Judaic traditions. ...
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God makes a covenant with Abram, promising that Abram's descendants shall be as numerous as the stars in the heavens, that they shall suffer oppression in a foreign land for four hundred years, but that they shall inherit the land "from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates."[35] For alternative meanings of Nile, see Nile (disambiguation) The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: ال...
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Sarai, being childless, tells Abram to take his Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as wife. Hagar becomes pregnant with Ishmael,[36] and God appears to her to promise that the child will be "a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him," whose descendants "cannot be numbered."[37] The dismissal of Hagar, 1612 by Pieter Pietersz Lastman Hagar (Hebrew הָגָר Stranger, Standard Hebrew Hagar, Tiberian Hebrew ; Arabic هاجر; Hagar), according to the Abrahamic faiths, was an Egyptian handmaiden (or slave-girl) of Sarah, wife of Abraham. ...
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, by Karel Dujardin Ishmael (Hebrew: יִשְ×מָעֵ×ל, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: إسماعيل, IsmÄÄ«l) was Abrahams eldest son, born by his wifes handmaiden Hagar. ...
God makes a covenant with Abram: Abram will have a numerous progeny and the possession of the land of Canaan, and Abram's name is changed to "Abraham"[38] and that of Sarai to "Sarah," and circumcision of all males is instituted as an external sign of the covenant. Abraham asks of God that Ishmael "might live in Thy sight," but God replies that Sarah will bear a son, who will be named Isaac,[39] and that it is with Isaac and his descendants that the covenant will be established. "As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But I will establish my covenant with Isaac."[40] This article is about male circumcision. ...
Sacrifice of Isaac, a detail from the sarcophagus of the Roman consul Junius Bassus, ca. ...
God appears again to Abraham. Three strangers[41] appear, and Abraham receives them hospitably. God tells him that Sarah will shortly bear a son, and Sarah, overhearing, laughs: "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"[42] God tells Abraham that he will punish Sodom, "because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave." The strangers depart. Abraham protests that it is not just "to slay the righteous with the wicked," and asks if the whole city can be spared if even ten righteous men are found there. God replies: "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."[43] For other uses, see Sodom and Gomorrah (disambiguation). ...
The two[44] messengers are hospitably received by Lot. The men of Sodom surround the house and demand to have sexual relations with the strangers; Lot offers his two virgin daughters in place of the messengers, but the men refuse. Lot and his family are led out of Sodom, and Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by fire-and-brimstone; but Lot's wife, looking back, is turned to a pillar of salt. Lot's daughters, fearing that they will not find husbands and that Lot's line will die out, make their father drunk and lie with him; their children become the ancestors of the Moabites and Ammonites.[45] This article is about sexual practices (i. ...
According to the Bible and the Quran, Lot (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: لوط, ; Hidden, covered[1]) was the nephew of the patriarch, Abraham or Abram. ...
According to the Bible and the Quran, Lot (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: لوط, ; Hidden, covered[1]) was the nephew of the patriarch, Abraham or Abram. ...
Fire and brimstone is a motif in Christian preaching that uses vivid descriptions of hell and damnation to encourage the listeners to fear divine wrath and punishment. ...
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Moab (מוֹאָב Seed of father/leader, Standard Hebrew Moʾav, Tiberian Hebrew Môʾāḇ) is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in Jordan running along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. ...
For the extinct mollusc see Ammonite. ...
Abraham represents Sarah as his sister before Abimelech,[46] king of Gerar. God visits a curse of barrenness upon Abimelech and his household and warns the king that Sarah is Abraham's wife, not his sister. Abimelech restores Sarah to Abraham, loads them both with gifts and sends them away.[47] pages edit history. ...
Sarah gives birth to Isaac, saying, "God has made laughter for me, everyone who hears will laugh over me." At Sarah's insistence Ishmael and his mother Hagar are driven out into the wilderness. While Ishmael is near dying, an angel speaks to Hagar and promises that God will not forget them but will make of Ishmael a great nation; "Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, ... And God was with the lad, and he grew up..." Abraham enters into a covenant with Abimelech, who confirms his right to the well of Beer-sheba.[48] Sacrifice of Isaac, a detail from the sarcophagus of the Roman consul Junius Bassus, ca. ...
Hebrew (Standard) Bəʼer ŠévaÊ» Arabic بÙئْرْ اَلْسَبْعْ ( ) Name Meaning Well of the Oath(see also) Government City Also Spelled Beer Sheva (officially) District South Population 185,500 (Metro 531,000) (2005) Jurisdiction 54,000 dunams (54 km²) Mayor Yaacov Turner Beersheba (Hebrew romanization Beer Sheva), the largest city in the...
God puts Abraham to the test by demanding the sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham obeys; but, as he is about to lay the knife upon his son, God restrains him, promising him numberless descendants.[49] On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah for a family tomb[50] and sends his servant to Mesopotamia, Nahor's home, to find among his relations a wife for Isaac; and Rebekah, Nahor's granddaughter, is chosen.[51] Other children are born to Abraham by another wife, Keturah, among whose descendants are the Midianites; and he dies in a prosperous old age and is buried in his tomb at Hebron.[52] Abraham Sacrificing Isaac by Laurent de LaHire, 1650 Akedah or the Binding of Isaac (‎, Akedát Yitzhák) in Genesis 22, is narration from the Hebrew Bible, in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. ...
The Cave of the Patriarchs is considered to be the spiritual center of the ancient city of Hebron. ...
Arabic الخليل Government City Also Spelled al-Khalil (officially) al-Halil (unofficially) Governorate Hebron Population 166,000 (2006) Jurisdiction dunams Head of Municipality Mustafa Abdel Nabi Hebron (Arabic: al-Ḫalīl or al Khalīl; Hebrew: , Standard Hebrew: Ḥevron, Tiberian Hebrew: Ḥeḇrôn) is a city in the southern Judea...
Isaac's wife Rebecca is barren, but Isaac prays to God, and she gives birth to the twins Esau,[53] and Jacob.[54] While the twins were still in the womb God stated that the two would be forever divided, and that the elder would serve the younger. When they are older, Esau the hunter sells his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red porridge, and "therefore his name was called Edom."[55] Rebekah (Rebecca or Rivkah) (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ) is the wife of Isaac. ...
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Isaac represents Rebekah as his sister before Abimelech, king of Gerar. Abimelech learns of the deception and is angered. Isaac is fortunate in all his undertakings in that country. His prosperity excites the jealousy of Abimelech, who sends him away; but the king sees that Isaac is blessed by God and makes a covenant with him at the well of Beer-sheba.[56]
Jacob deceives his father Isaac and obtains the blessing of prosperity[57] which should have been Esau's. Fearing Esau's anger he flees to Haran, the home of his mother's brother Laban.[58] Isaac, prohibiting Jacob from marrying a Canaanite woman, tells him to go and marry one of Laban's daughters. On the way, Jacob falls asleep on a stone and dreams of a ladder stretching from Heaven to Earth and thronged with angels, and God promises him prosperity and many descendants; and when he awakes Jacob sets the stone as a pillar[59] and names the place Bethel.[60] Canaanite can describe anything pertaining to Canaan: in particular, its languages and inhabitants. ...
The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is an ethereal being found in many religions, whose duties are to assist and serve God. ...
Bethel (בית ×ל), also written as Beth El or Beth-El, is a Semitic word that has acquired various meanings. ...
Jacob hires himself to Laban on condition that, after having served for seven years as a herdsman, he shall marry the younger daughter, Rachel, with whom he is in love. At the end of this period Laban gives him the elder daughter, Leah, explaining that it is the custom to marry the elder before the younger. Jacob serves another seven years for Rachel, and he has sons by his two wives and their two handmaidens, the ancestors of the tribes of Israel. Jacob then works another six years, deceiving Laban to increase his flocks at his uncle's expense, and gains great wealth in sheep, goats, camels, donkeys and slave-girls. This article is about the Biblical character. ...
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Jacob flees with his family and flocks from Laban; Laban pursues and catches him, but God warns Laban not to harm Jacob, and they are reconciled.[61] On approaching his home he is in fear of Esau, to whom he sends presents under the care of his servants, and then sends his wives and children away. "And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day."[62] Neither Jacob nor the stranger can prevail, but the man touches Jacob's thigh[63] and pleads to be released before daybreak, but Jacob refuses to release the being until he agrees to give a blessing; the stranger then announces to Jacob that he shall bear the name "Israel", "for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."[64] and is freed. "The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel,[65] limping because of his thigh."[66]
The meeting with Esau proves friendly, and the brothers are reconciled: "to see your face is like seeing the face of God," is Jacob's greeting. The brothers part, and Jacob settles near the city of Shechem.[67] Jacob's daughter Dinah goes out, and "Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her".[68] Shechem asks Jacob for Dinah's hand in marriage, but the sons of Jacob deceive the men of Shechem and slaughter them and take captive their wives and children and loot the city. Jacob is angered that his sons have brought upon him the enmity of the Canaanites, but his sons say, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"[69] Shechem is a name of geographical places. ...
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Jacob goes up to Bethel; there "God said to him, Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name. So his name was called Israel"; and Jacob sets up a stone pillar at the place and names it Bethel. He goes up to his father Isaac at Hebron, and there Isaac dies and is buried.[70]
[edit] Joseph Jacob makes a coat of many colours[71] for his favourite son, Joseph. Jacob's son Judah takes a Canaanite wife and has two sons, Er and Onan; Er dies, and his widow Tamar, disguised as a prostitute, tricks Judah into having a child by her (Onan, who should have fathered the child, refused). She gives birth to twins, the elder of whom is Pharez, ancestor of the future royal house of David. Joseph's jealous brothers sell him to some Ishmaelites and show Jacob the coat, dipped in goat's blood, as proof that Joseph is dead. Meanwhile the Midianites[72] sell Joseph to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard,[73] but Potiphar's wife, unable to seduce Joseph, accuses him falsely, and he is cast into prison.[74] Here he correctly interprets the dreams of two of his fellow prisoners, the king's butler and baker.[75] Joseph next interprets the dream of Pharaoh, of seven fat cattle and seven lean cattle, as meaning seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine, and advises Pharaoh to store grain during the good years. He is appointed second in the kingdom, and, in the ensuing famine, "all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth."[76] Joseph interprets the dream of the Pharaoh. ...
otheruses}} The story of Onan is found in the Bible in Genesis 38:1-10. ...
In the Bible Tamar - תָּמָר Date Palm, Standard Hebrew Tamar, Tiberian Hebrew TÄmÄr was the daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she was married (Gen. ...
In the Book of Genesis, Pharez or Péretz (פֶּרֶץ / פָּרֶץ Breach, Standard Hebrew Péreẓ / Páreẓ, Tiberian Hebrew Péreá¹£ / PÄreá¹£) is the son of Judah by the Canaanitish woman Tamar. ...
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According to Quranic tradition Ibrahim had two wives Sarah and Hajira. ...
According to the Bible, Midian (מִדְיָן Strife; judgment, Standard Hebrew Midyan, Tiberian Hebrew Miá¸yÄn) was a son of Abraham and his concubine Keturah (Genesis 25:1-6). ...
Potiphar (or Potifar) (Hebrew: פּוֹטִיפַר / פּוֹטִיפָר, Standard Tiberian / ; Egyptian origin: ; the one whom Ra gave. ...
Jacob sends his sons to Egypt to buy grain. The brothers appear before Joseph, who recognizes them but does not reveal himself. After having proved them on this and on a second journey, and they having shown themselves so fearful and penitent that Judah even offers himself as a slave, Joseph reveals his identity, forgives his brothers the wrong they did him, and he promises to settle in Egypt both them and his father[77] Jacob brings his whole family to Egypt, where Pharaoh assigns to them the land of Goshen.[78] Jacob receives Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh among his own sons,[79] then calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future to them.[80] Jacob dies and is interred in the family tomb at Machpelah (Hebron). Joseph lives to see his great-grandchildren, and on his death-bed he exhorts his brethren, if God should remember them and lead them out of the country, to take his bones with them. The book ends with Joseph's remains being "put in a coffin in Egypt."[81] The Land of Goshen (Hebrew גֹּשֶ×ן, Standard Hebrew Góšen, Tiberian Hebrew GÅÅ¡en) is the region around the city with the modern name Fakus in the eastern Nile delta in Egypt referenced in the Biblical story of Joseph. ...
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Eastons Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. ...
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Eastons Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. ...
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 Bereshit aleph, or the first chapter of Genesis, written on an egg, which is kept in the Israel Museum. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (765x907, 247 KB) The original from which this was cropped. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (765x907, 247 KB) The original from which this was cropped. ...
The road sign The Shrine of the Book The Israel Museum (‎, Muzion Yisrael) in Jerusalem, was founded in 1965 as Israels national museum. ...
[edit] Manuscripts The oldest extant Masoretic (Hebrew) manuscripts of Genesis are the Aleppo Codex dated to ca. 920 AD, and the Westminster Leningrad Codex dated to 1008 AD. There are also fragments of unvocalized Hebrew Genesis texts preserved in some Dead Sea scrolls (1st century BC). According to tradition the Torah was translated into Greek (the Septuagint, or 70, from the traditional number of translators) in the 3rd century BC. The oldest Greek manuscripts include 2nd century BC fragments of Leviticus and Deuteronomy[82] and 1st century BC fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and the Minor Prophets.[83] Relatively complete manuscripts of the Septuagint include the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century—these are the oldest surviving nearly-complete manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language. There are minor variations between the Greek and Hebrew texts, and between the three oldest Greek texts. The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Tanakh approved for general use in Judaism. ...
The Aleppo Codex (the Keter (Crown) Aram Tzova) is the oldest complete manuscript Hebrew Bible, though scrolls of individual books of the Tanakh are much older (see Dead Sea scrolls). ...
Leningrad Codex (cover page E, folio 474a) The Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis) is the oldest surviving complete copy of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, dated 1008. ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in the West Bank. ...
The Septuagint: A column of uncial text from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brentons Greek edition and English translation. ...
Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, also the third book in the Torah (five books of Moses). ...
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