According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.

According to Rashi, the being was the guardian angel of Esau himself, sent to destroy Jacob before he could return to the land of Canaan.

According to the traditional counting cited by Rashi, Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of Rebekah's birth reached Abraham immediately after that event.

According to the Talmud and the commentary of Rashi, rice is not chametz.

According to tradition, Rashi was first brought to learn Torah by his father on Shavuot day at the age of five.

According to halakha, a man may even study the Rashi on each Torah verse in fulfillment of the requirement to review the Parsha twice with Targum ( which normally refers to Targum Onkelos ) This practice is called in Hebrew: " Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum ".

According to this view, Saul is only a weak branch ( Gen. Rashi 25: 3 ), owing his kingship not to his own merits, but rather to his grandfather, who had been accustomed to light the streets for those who went to the bet ha-midrash, and had received as his reward the promise that one of his grandsons should sit upon the throne ( Lev.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

According to Rashi on Genesis 7: 4, God delayed the Flood specifically because of the seven days of mourning in honor of the righteous Methuselah.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

According to the Medieval Jewish scholar, Rashi, Sefer HaYashar refers to the Pentateuch, as a fulfillment of Jacob's prophecy regarding Ephraim “ His seed Ephraim will fill the nations .” ( Gen. 48: 19 ) that this refer's to Joshua's renown after the miracle of the standing of the sun.

' According to Rashi and other rabbis, he, like Onan, purposely tried to keep Tamar from conceiving, in his case because he was afraid of spoiling her beauty.

" According to Rashi, this is Dinah's son by Shechem.

According to the Talmud ( tractate Megillah 22b ), women are exempt from work on Rosh Chodesh, and Rashi, in commenting on this passage, delineates the activities from which they may refrain: spinning, weaving, and sewing — the skills that women contributed to the building of the Mishkan ( Tabernacle ).

According to the Jewish scholar Rashi, the Canaanite god Dagon was a fish god.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, and Sarah was beyond childbearing years.

According to the documentary hypothesis, use of names of God indicates authorship, and form critics variously assign passages like Genesis chapter 26, verses 6-11 to the Yahwist source, and Genesis chapter 20 verses 1-7, chapter 21, verse 1 to chapter 22, verse 14 and chapter 22, verse 19 to the Elohist source ; this source-critical approach has admitted problems, in that the name " Yahweh " appears in Elohist material.

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

According to Genesis 25: 25, Isaac and Rebekah named the first son עשו, Esau (` Esav or ` Esaw, meaning " hairy " or " rough ", from, ` asah, " do " or " make "; or " completely developed ", from, ` assui ).

According to Genesis 46: 11, Amram's father Kehath immigrated to Egypt with 70 of Jacob's household, making Moses part of the second generation of Israelites born during their time in Egypt.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible ( Pentateuch / Torah ), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC.

According to some Jewish traditions ( e. g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b ; Genesis Rabbah 46: 7 ; Genesis Rabbah 56: 10 ; Leviticus Rabbah 25: 6 ; Numbers Rabbah 4: 8.

According to The Bible, Genesis 10: 22-31

According to Swedenborgianism, the first twelve chapters of Genesis are a symbolic retelling of ancient truths.

According to Genesis 1:

According to Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old " a son in his likeness and image.

According to the Joseph narrative in the Book of Genesis, the sons of Israel who were living in Hebron, experienced a severe famine that lasted seven years.

According to the Book of Genesis and 1 Chronicles, Amalek was the son of Eliphaz and of the concubine Timna.

According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and was the twin of Pharez.

According to the traditional rabbinic interpretation, in the early part of the Bible, as recorded in the Book of Genesis, the duties of a priest fell upon the eldest son of each family.

# God the Holy Spirit — According to some Messianic Jews, the Spirit is introduced in the Old Testament as co-creator ( Genesis 1: 2 ), is the inspirer of prophets ( II Sam.

According to Genesis, the Moabites were related to the Israelites, with both peoples tracing their descent back to a common ancestor, Terah, who is named as the father of Abraham and Haran, and Haran being the father of Lot.

According to Genesis 10, Noah had three sons:

According to some Bible critics who contextually read this passage, the description of Onan is an origin myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the death of Onan reflecting the dying out of a clan ; Er and Onan are hence viewed as each being representative of a clan, with Onan possibly representing an Edomite clan named Onam, mentioned by an Edomite genealogy in Genesis.

According to the midrash Genesis Rabba, Abraham's father, Terah, was both an idol manufacturer and worshipper.

According to the Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides, “

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

* According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre ’ s, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, “ saving mankind by the holy cross .”

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

According to Coogan, Hosea falls under a unique genre called “ covenant lawsuit ” where God accuses Israel of breaking their previously made agreement.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to Arika Okrent, Bliss used to complain about the way the teachers at the OCCC were using the symbols, in relation with the proportions of the symbols and other questions: for example, they used “ fancy ” terms like “ nouns ” and “ verbs ”, to describe what Bliss called “ things ” and “ actions ”.

It is an “ instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency .” According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries “ the natives were robbed of more than half their natural span of life by undernourishment ”.

As a result, his art was sometimes criticized as being “ vulgar ,” because he painted what he saw: “ rutted and edged hodgepodge of bushes, mounds of earth, and trees in various stages of development .” According to one source, details such as those were equivalent to today ’ s art showing garbage cans or beer bottles on the side of a street scene.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

According to Jacques Ellul, “ the aim is not to even modify people ’ s ideas on a given subject, rather, it is to achieve conformity in the way that people act.

According to William Lutz: “ Only by teaching respect and love for the language can teachers of English instill in students the sense of outrage they should experience when they encounter doublespeak.

Schopenhauer claimed that “ everything that exists for knowledge, and hence the whole of this world, is only object in relation to the subject, perception of the perceiver, in a word, representation .” According to him there can be " No object without subject " because " everything objective is already conditioned as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject with the forms of its knowing, and presupposes these forms …"

According to New Testament scholar Daniel Wallace, the theme may be stated pragmatically as “ Christians, get along with each other!

According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.