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Esau in Biblical Characters
Aug 3rd 20

Esau was the son of Isaac and Rebekah and the older twin brother of Jacob (Gen  25:26). He is remembered particularly for two dramatic episodes: his selling of his birthright for a plate of stew ( ...

Esau
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Prophecy in the Old Testament in Prophecy
Aug 4th 20

Who counts as a prophet?The first prophets mentioned in the Old Testament are Abraham and Miriam. Abraham is a prophet because he is able to pray for people (Gen 20:7, 17) and Miriam because she leads ...

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Sacrifices and Offerings in Definitions
Aug 5th 20

This page is a stub.Sacrifices and offerings are expressions of the human desire to achieve a certain relationship between humans and the deity/deities. The concept and act of making sacrifices and ...

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Sheol in Biblical Places
Aug 5th 20

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Sheol
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Additions to Daniel in Apocrypha
Aug 2nd 20

‘The Additions to Daniel’ is a collective term for passages included in the ancient Greek texts of Daniel, but not in the Hebrew/Aramaic texts (chapters 1–12). In those Bible translations where the O ...

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Saul in Biblical Characters
Aug 5th 20

The first king of Israel, Saul the son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin, is seemingly chosen by God and almost immediately rejected by him.He is known to us only from the biblical account of his ...

Saul
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Sarah in Biblical Characters
Aug 5th 20

This is a holding page; below is a stub.Sarai or Sarah (as she is later named, Gen 17:15) is a biblical matriarch, the ancestor of important descendants. She is Abraham's wife and is said by Abraham ...

Sarah
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Samaritans in Biblical Characters
Aug 5th 20

The Samaritans are not mentioned in the Old Testament—or are they?Identity and nameThe Samaritans are an ethnic and religious community who claim, in competition with the Jews, to be the true i ...

The Samaritans
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Samaria in Biblical Places
Aug 5th 20

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Samaria
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Salvation History in Definitions
Aug 5th 20

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Salvation History