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  2. Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours

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    Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...

  3. Birkat HaBayit - Wikipedia

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    Birkat HaBayit (Hebrew: ברכת הבית, meaning Blessing for the Home) is a Jewish prayer often inscribed on wall plaques or hamsas and featured at the entrance of some Jewish homes. There are various versions of the prayer.

  4. Beatitudes - Wikipedia

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    9 And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. 10 And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Though the teachings in 3 Nephi 12 closely mirror the Beatitudes in Matthew, the Book of Mormon version emphasizes the importance of baptism and receiving ...

  5. Blessing of Jacob - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Blessing His Sons by François Maitre. The mention of a bed in Genesis 49:33 indicates that this is a deathbed speech. The Blessing of Jacob is a prophetic poem written that appears in Genesis at 49:1–27 and mentions each of Jacob's twelve sons. Genesis presents the poem as the words of Jacob to his sons when Jacob is about to die ...

  6. Blessing in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    A Catholic priest blesses the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorials on Boylston Street. In the Catholic Church, a blessing is a rite consisting of a ceremony and prayers performed in the name and with the authority of the Church by a duly qualified minister by which persons or things are sanctified as dedicated to divine service or by which certain marks of divine favour are invoked upon them.

  7. Bible translations into French - Wikipedia

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    Bible translations into French date back to the Medieval era. [1] After a number of French Bible translations in the Middle Ages, the first printed translation of the Bible into French was the work of the French theologian Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1530 in Antwerp. This was substantially revised and improved in 1535 by Pierre Robert Olivétan.

  8. Priestly Blessing - Wikipedia

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    The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands (Hebrew nesiat kapayim), [1] rising to the platform (Hebrew aliyah ledukhan), [2] dukhenen (Yiddish from the Hebrew word dukhan – platform – because the blessing is given from a raised rostrum), or duchening, [3] is a Hebrew prayer ...

  9. Birkat Hamazon - Wikipedia

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    The start of the blessing, in a siddur from the city of Fürth, 1738. Birkat Hamazon (Hebrew: בִּרְכַּת הַמָּזוׂן, romanized: birkath hammāzôn "The Blessing of the Food"), known in English as the Grace After Meals (Yiddish: בענטשן, romanized: benchen "to bless", [1] Yinglish: Bentsching), is a set of Hebrew blessings that Jewish law prescribes following a meal that ...