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  2. Water of lustration - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible taught that any Israelite who touched a corpse, a Tumat HaMet (literally, "impurity of the dead"), was ritually unclean.The water was to be sprinkled on a person who had touched a corpse, on the third and seventh days after doing so, in order to make the person ritually clean again. [2]

  3. Stacte - Wikipedia

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    Opobalsamum (Commiphora opobalsamum [L.] Engl. Mecca myrrh) is a rare type of myrrh in the genus Commiphora.Some writers believe that stacte was derived from the balsam tree, Commiphora opobalsamum, known as kataf in the Talmud, which grows wild in Yemen, around Mecca, and in Israel.

  4. Fire and brimstone - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In Genesis 19, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with a rain of fire and brimstone (Hebrew: גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ), and in Deuteronomy 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God.

  5. Water of Life (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Fleuve de Vie, the "River of Life", from the Book of Revelation, Urgell Beatus, (f°198v-199), c. 10th century. In Christianity the term "water of Life" (Greek: ὕδωρ ζωῆς hydōr zōēs) is used in the context of living water, specific references appearing in the Book of Revelation (21:6 and 22:1), as well as the Gospel of John. [1]

  6. Unclean spirit - Wikipedia

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    Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...

  7. Nattō - Wikipedia

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    For those who dislike the smell and texture of natto, "dried natto" and "fried natto" were developed around 1990. The smell and stickiness are reduced, making it easier to eat for those who do not like conventional natto. Another type of fermented soybeans called mamenoka (Japanese: 豆乃香) has also been developed by improving the soybean ...

  8. Talk:Nattō - Wikipedia

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    This dish does not smell a lot, just like any other cooked fish. Surströmming(fermented herring) however has a rather pungent "aroma" which isn't very pleasing. Then again i've never tried natto, but would very much like to. 213.112.50.67 08:54, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Having tried lutfisk and surströmming, I can say natto does not smell like ...

  9. Water crisis - Wikipedia

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    Water crisis could refer to: Water security, a goal of water management and policy; Water scarcity, a shortage of water in a specific geography, such as the Cape Town ...