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  2. Arakhin - Wikipedia

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    Chapters 7-8 explain the redemption from the Temple of an inherited field according to Leviticus 27:16–25. Chapter 8 addresses the herem , one of the twenty-four priestly gifts , according to Leviticus 27:28–29 , while the last chapter deals with the laws of ancestral fields and houses in walled cities and how they are redeemed according to ...

  3. Ransom theory of atonement - Wikipedia

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    The ransom theory of atonement is a theory in Christian theology as to how the process of Atonement in Christianity had happened. It therefore accounts for the meaning and effect of the death of Jesus Christ .

  4. Thirty pieces of silver - Wikipedia

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    The Antiochan Stater is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. A Tyrian shekel, another possibility for the type of coin involved. The word used in Matthew 26:15 (ἀργύρια, argyria) simply means "silver coins", [10] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used.

  5. Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    Leviticus 20:27 – "A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit [א֛וֹב א֥וֹ יִדְּעֹנִ֖י ob̲ o yiddəʿoni] shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones—and the bloodguilt is theirs." [3]

  6. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Certain sexual activities between males (Hebrew: zakhar) involving what the Masoretic Text literally terms lie lyings (of a) woman (Hebrew: tishkav mishkvei ishah), [25] [26] [27] and the Septuagint literally terms beds [verb] the woman's/wife's bed (Greek: koimethese koiten gynaikos); [28] [29] the gender of the target of the command is ...

  7. Herem (priestly gift) - Wikipedia

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    The term is used 29 times in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh. An unrelated homonym , the noun herem meaning "fisherman's net" (also חֵרֶם), is used a further 9 times. [ 4 ] The adjective herem and the associate verb haram ("devote") come from the Semitic root Ḥ-R-M , with cognates in the Syriac and Arabic languages .

  8. Herem (war or property) - Wikipedia

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    [9] [2] Although the word basically means something devoted or given over to God (as in Leviticus 27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". [2] There is also a homonym, herem, meaning fisherman's net, which occurs 9 times in the masoretic text and is regarded as etymologically unrelated, according to the Brown Driver Briggs ...

  9. Pidyon haben - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew Bible the laws (see mitzvah) concerning the redemption of the first-born male are referred to in Exodus, Numbers and Leviticus: You shall set apart for יהוה every first issue of the womb: every male firstling that your cattle drop shall be יהוה’s.