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    The patriarchs (Hebrew: אבות‎ ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel...
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    The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah (Biblical Hebrew: מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה, romanized: Məʿāraṯ...
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  • The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-century and 18th-century English translations of some Old Testament...
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    The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is a constituent of the apocryphal scriptures connected with the Bible. It is believed to be a pseudepigraphical...
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  • Christ of Latter-Day Saints Patriarch (magazine), a defunct American magazine that espoused Biblical patriarchy Patriarchs (Bible), prominent figures in the...
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    Isaac (redirect from Isaac (Bible))
    Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam....
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    Jacob (redirect from Israel (Bible))
    Churches consider Jacob as a saint along with other biblical patriarchs. Along with other patriarchs his feast day is celebrated in the Byzantine rite on the...
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  • circumscription of a Christian patriarch is termed a patriarchate. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of the people of Israel...
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    The kiss on the lips is a practice that can be found in the time of patriarchs (Bible). In Ancient Greece, the kiss on the mouth was used to express a concept...
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    Noah (redirect from Flood (Bible))
    the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5–9)...
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    The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ‎ Tānāḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא‎ Mīqrāʾ‍), is the canonical...
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    The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are...
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    Sarah (redirect from Sarah (Bible))
    to the biblical narrative. The place became known as the Cave of the Patriarchs.: 26  Sarah is mentioned alongside Abraham in Isaiah 51:2: Look to Abraham...
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  • the patriarchs that appear in the Vulgate and the Septuagint, but their names are spelled as they appear in the King James Version of the Bible. Their...
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    Enoch (redirect from Enoch (Bible))
    Pentateuch as the seventh of the ten pre-Deluge Patriarchs. Genesis recounts that each of the pre-Flood Patriarchs lived for several centuries. Genesis 5 provides...
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  • In this view, all of the stories about the biblical patriarchs are fictional, and the patriarchs mere legendary eponyms to describe later historical realities...
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  • Kush (/kʊʃ, kʌʃ/ Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš; Ge'ez: ኩሽ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the oldest son of Ham and a grandson of Noah. He was the brother of...
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  • in the Jahwist source, the patriarchs refer to deity by the name YHWH, for example in Genesis 15.) Through the patriarchs, God announces the election...
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  • Joseph is not one of the patriarchs). It is preceded in the Bible by the primeval history and followed by The Exodus. The Bible contains an intricate pattern...
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    founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah's grave, thus establishing his right to the land;...
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    also references to slavery in the New Testament. Many of the patriarchs portrayed in the Bible were from the upper echelons of society, owned slaves, enslaved...
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    Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1 Chronicles and the Gospel of...
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    Rebecca (redirect from Rebecca (Bible))
    one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and...
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    Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented...
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    The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre or the Hebron massacre, was a shooting massacre carried out by Baruch Goldstein...
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  • "Tahash," Tahaš, named after the biblical 'Tahash' personage; see: Patriarchs (Bible). Biridašwa, letter 197, Title: "Biryawaza's plight" Etakkama Bryce...
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    Esau (redirect from Judith (Hebrew Bible))
    Hebrews. According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites. Jacob and...
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  • Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, considered it to be an illicit form of heterosexual intercourse. In Jude 1:7–8 the Bible says of Sodom and Gomorrah:...
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    separatism Lumpa Church Alice Lenshina Marianismo Menstrual synchrony Patriarchs (Bible) § Matriarchs Other World Kingdom Bissagos Islands Radical feminism...
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  • Matriarchy Matriarcas (English: Matriarchs), s Chilean soap opera Patriarchs (Bible)#Matriarchs This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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