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  2. Book of Numbers - Wikipedia

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    ' In [the] desert '; Latin: Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. [1] The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made sometime in the early Persian period (5th century BC). [ 2 ]

  3. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    128.4–152.8 m A ris is 2 ⁄ 15, or about 0.13, of a mil. According to Rashi (Baba Kama 79b, s.v. שלושים ריס), thirty ris is equivalent to 4 mil. Maimonides concurs in his commentary on Mishnah yoma 6:4, where 90 ris is put at 12 mil. Mil (Milin) מיל mile: 0.598–0.712 mi (in case of Talmud opinion referencing a Roman mile: 0.919 ...

  4. Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    In Protestant Bibles, the Old Testament is the same as the Hebrew Bible, but the books are arranged differently. Catholic Bibles and Eastern Orthodox Bibles , as well as those in the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian churches, contain books not included in certain versions of the Hebrew Bible, called Deuterocanonical books . [ 87 ]

  5. Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]

  6. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible, including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy of a Greek translation known as the Septuagint. The oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic Text date to the 9th century CE. [1]

  7. Asimov's Guide to the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969, [1] covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books (see Catholic Bible) and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.

  8. Biblical apocrypha - Wikipedia

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    The Orthodox Study Bible, published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, includes the Anagignoskomena in its Old Testament, with the exception of 4 Maccabees. This was translated by the Saint Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology, from the Rahlfs Edition of the Septuagint using Brenton's English translation and the RSV Expanded Apocrypha as their ...

  9. Thomson's Translation - Wikipedia

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    Thomson's Translation of the Bible is a direct translation of the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament into English, rare for its time. It took Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1789 and a Founding Father of the United States, 19 years to complete, and was originally published in 1808.