The Church would not simply grant this favour, so Henry cited the passage in the Book of Leviticus where it said, " If a man taketh his brother's wife, he hath committed adultery ; they shall be childless.

The Book of Leviticus ( from Greek Λευιτικός, Leuitikos, meaning " relating to the Levites ";, Vayiqra, " And He called ") is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah ( or Pentateuch ).

( See Gordon Wenham, " The Book of Leviticus ", and Frank Gorman, " Divine presence and community ")

** The Book of Leviticus, Douay Rheims Version, with Bishop Challoner Commentaries

* Book of Leviticus article ( Jewish Encyclopedia )

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Called the feast of unleavened bread ( Hebrew hag hamatzot ) in the Hebrew Bible, the commandment to keep Passover is recorded in the Book of Leviticus:

Observance of Sukkot is detailed in the Book of Nehemiah and Leviticus 23: 34-44 in the Bible, the Mishnah ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 5: 8 ); the Tosefta ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 4: 28 ); and the Jerusalem Talmud ( Sukkah 1a –) and Babylonian Talmud ( Sukkah 2a – 56b ).

The Book of Deuteronomy ( 18: 9 – 12 ) explicitly warns the Israelites against engaging in the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead: Though Mosaic Law prescribed the death penalty to practitioners of necromancy ( Leviticus 20: 27 ), this warning was not always heeded.

In the Book of Exodus, the Book of Leviticus and the Book of Numbers, Nadab () and Abihu () were respectively the eldest and second-eldest of the sons of Aaron.

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The next ten windows of the nave follow clockwise with scenes from Exodus, Joseph, Numbers / Leviticus, Joshua / Deuteronomy, Judges, ( moving to the south wall ) Jeremiah / Tobias, Judith / Job, Esther, David and the Book of Kings.

Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry ( Leviticus 18: 21: " And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch ").

The tithe is specifically mentioned in the Book of Leviticus, the Book of Numbers and also in the Book of Deuteronomy.

An example is the Biblical Jubilee year, described in the Book of Leviticus.

Islam forbids lending with interest even today, while the Catholic Church allowed it from 1822 onwards, and the Torah states that all debts should be erased every 7 years and every 50 years ( in the Jubilee year, as described in the Book of Leviticus ).

The EBC ( Vol 2 ) says that this text uses late Aramaic forms for these names which indicates that The Book of Enoch most likely relies upon the Hebrew Leviticus text rather than the Leviticus text being reliant upon the Book of Enoch.

The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

Though God is never explicitly mentioned in the Book of Esther, some Christians believe that his influence during the story is implied.

* Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job-a literary, legal and philosophical commentary

This final chapter is a poetic praise of God, and has some similarities with texts found in the Book of Daniel.

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

As the Kingdom of God described in the New Testament and particularly the Book of Revelation, Heaven is a new or restored earth, a World to Come, free of sin and death, with a New Jerusalem led by God, Jesus, and the most righteous of believers starting with 144, 000 Israelites from every tribe, and all others who received salvation living peacefully and making pilgrimages to give glory to the city.

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

Eve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.

* When God Was a Woman ( Book )

However, not all such grimoires of this era were based upon Arabic sources ; the 13th century the Sworn Book of Honorius for instance was, like the ancient Testament of Solomon before it, largely based upon the supposed teachings of the Biblical king Solomon, and also included ideas such as prayers and a ritual circle, with the mystical purpose of having visions of God, Hell and Purgatory, and gaining much wisdom and knowledge as a result.

The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew ג ַּ ן ע ֵ ד ֶ ן, Gan ʿEdhen ), is the biblical " garden of God ", described most notably in the Book of Genesis ( Genesis 2-3 ), but also mentioned, directly or indirectly, in Ezekiel, Isaiah and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

In the Book of Numbers it is written that God told Moses to make a bronze serpent, Nehushtan, and hold it up, so that anyone looking at the snake would be healed of their snakebites.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

By then, the work consisted of four books of eighty chapters, and each book was named after statements from the creed: Book 1 on God the Creator, Book 2 on the Redeemer in Christ, Book 3 on receiving the Grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and Book 4 on the Society of Christ or the Church.

Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah 38 ) says that Adam spoke Hebrew because the names he gives Eve-" Isha " ( Book of Genesis 2: 23 ) and " Chava " ( Genesis 3: 20 )-only make sense in Hebrew.

The Philistines, while an integral part of the Canaanite milieu, do not seem to have been ethnically homogenous with the Canaanites ; the Hurrians ( who spoke a language isolate ), Hittites ( Indo-European speakers ), as well as the Semitic Aramaeans, Moabites, and Ammonites, are also considered " distinct " from generic Canaanites / Amorites, in scholarship or in tradition ( although in the Biblical Book of Nations, " Heth ", Hittites are a son of Canaan, despite the fact that it has been proven beyond doubt that the Hittites spoke an Indo-European language ).

But she spoke to the hero without any disguise in Book V where he could see her in the true divine form ( a special vision was granted to him ).

Then, when discussing the islands around Britain in Book IV, Chapter 16, he writes: " The farthest of all, which are known and spoke of, is Thule ; in which there be no nights at all, as we have declared, about mid-summer, namely when the Sun passes through the sign Cancer ; and contrariwise no days in mid-winter: and each of these times they suppose, do last six months, all day, or all night.

* Book of Numbers: " Moses spoke to God, saying, ' Let the Omnipotent God of all living souls appoint a man over the community.

Of his own views on religious-philosophical subjects only those regarding the anthropomorphisms of the Bible ( expressed in his appeal to a well-known dictum of R. Ishmael: " The Torah spoke in language of men ") and one or two other subjects were known prior to the publication of ibn Balaam's commentary on the Book of Isaiah.

The Book of Mormon records that the Mulekites spoke a language largely unintelligible to the Nephites.

Many books of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible, such as the Book of Isaiah and Book of Jeremiah, spoke out against those Israelites who brought forth sacrifices but did not act in accord with the precepts of the Law.

She also attended the First International Women's Book Fair ( London, England ) in 1984 where she spoke about the rights of women in Islam and the topic of polygamy.

He also spoke regularly at the Libertarian Book Club in New York.

Cornwall was mostly Catholic in sympathy at this time ; the Act was doubly resented in Cornwall because the Prayer Book was in English only and most Cornish people at this time spoke the Cornish language rather than English.

It became the Book Club's greatest selling book up to that point, and many readers spoke of how the account helped free them from drugs as well.

To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the Galáctico policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography " El Macca " ( a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ), in 2004 as the " Disneyfication of Real Madrid " upon his departure from the club ; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming somewhat pejorative to this day.

Edward J. Ruppelt, director of the USAF Project Blue Book UFO study, stated he visited the Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 1952 and spoke to various scientists and technicians there, all of whom had experienced green fireball sightings.

* Book: In Kazimierz the Vistula River spoke to them in Yiddish ...: Jewish painters in the art colony of Kazimierz Dolny, by Dr. Waldemar Odorowski ( Author and Editor ), published by Muzeum Nadwislanskie, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland 2008