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According to most interpretations, the unnamed "senior servant of his household, who had charge of all that he owned," in Genesis 24:2, who obtained Rebecca as a bride for Isaac, was the same Eliezer. This name is first found in the Bible in Genesis 15:2 when Abraham asks God about his promises of a son while being childless, naming Eliezer as ...
Genesis 2:7 is the first verse where "Adam" takes on the sense of an individual man (the first man), and the context of sex is absent; the gender distinction of "adam" is then reiterated in Genesis 5:1–2 by defining "male and female". [4]
Perez, also written as Pharez/Peretz (Hebrew: פֶּרֶץ / פָּרֶץ, Modern Pereṣ / Pareṣ Tiberian Péreṣ / Pāreṣ), was the son of Tamar and Judah, and the twin of Zerah, according to the Book of Genesis. [1] [2] The twins were conceived after Tamar tricked her father-in-law Judah into having sexual intercourse with her by ...
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
Genesis 11:27–25:11 Toledot of Terah (Abraham narrative) Genesis 25:12–18 Toledot of Ishmael (genealogy) Genesis 25:19–35:29 Toledot of Isaac (Jacob narrative) Genesis 36:1–36:8 Toledot of Esau (genealogy) Genesis 36:9–37:1 Toledot of Esau "the father of the Edomites" (genealogy) Genesis 37:2–50:26 Toledot of Jacob (Joseph narrative)
Rivers of Paradise flowing underneath the feet of Lamb of God (mosaic in Santi Cosma e Damiano, ca. 530 AD). Following Saint Ambrose [2] (per Cohen, [11] the association was established earlier, in a letter by Cyprian in 256 AD) the rivers are interpreted as four evangelists (or Gospels), with Water of Life flowing from the word of Christ (the Fountain of Life [11]) to bring salvation.
This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...
In Genesis 2:18–22, the woman is created to be ezer ke-negdo. Ke-negdo means "alongside, opposite, a counterpart to him", and ezer means active intervention on behalf of the other person. [12] The woman is called ishah, woman, with an explanation that this is because she was taken from ish, meaning "man"; the two words are not in fact connected.