As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.

As in English, the Hebrew word for " love ", ahavah אהבה, is used to describe intimate or romantic feelings or relationships, such as the love between parent and child in Genesis 22: 2 ; 25: 28 ; 37: 3 ; the love between close friends in I Samuel 18: 2, 20: 17 ; or the love between a young man and young woman in Song of Songs.

:* Vayeira, on Genesis 18 – 22: Abraham's visitors, Sodomites, Lot's visitors and flight, Hagar expelled, binding of Isaac

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.

For biblical references to Sheol see Genesis 42: 38, Isaiah 14: 11, Psalm 141: 7, Daniel 12: 2, Proverbs 7: 27 and Job 10: 21, 22, and 17: 16, among others.

Elam (; ע ֵ יל ָ ם ) in the Hebrew Bible ( Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ;) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah.

In the Bible, nose-jewels are mentioned in Isaiah 3: 21, and referred to in Ezekiel 16: 12, Genesis 24: 47, Proverbs 11: 22, and Hosea 2: 13.

The teachings of the Torah and Tanakh reveal the Israelites's familiarity with human sacrifices, as exemplified by the near-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham ( Genesis 22: 1-24 ) and some believe, the actual sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter ( Judges 11: 31-40 ), while many believe that Jephthah's daughter was committed for life in service equivalent to a nunnery of the day, as indicated by her lament over her " weep for my virginity " and never having known a man ( v37 ).

The story of Abraham and Isaac ( Genesis 22 ) is an example of an etiological myth explaining the abolition of human sacrifice.

In Genesis 22 as well as the Qur ' an, there is a story about Abraham's binding of Isaac, although in the Qur ' an the name of the son is not mentioned and assumed to be Ismail.

Genesis 22: 14 states that it occurred at " the mount of the LORD ".

More evidence that Abraham thought that he won't actually sacrifice Isaac comes from Genesis 22: 5, where Abraham said to his servants, " You stay here with the ass.

Genesis 22: 2 states that it occurred " in the region of Moriah ".

( Genesis Rabbah 84: 22 )

Genesis began its return to Earth on April 22, 2004.

The Bible also speaks of loyal ones, which would be those who follow the Bible with absolute loyalty, as in " Precious in the eyes of God is the death of his loyal ones ", ( Psalms 116: 15 ) Most Jewish and Christian authors view the binding of Isaac ( Genesis 22 ), in which Abraham was called by God to offer Isaac as a burnt offering, as a test of Abraham's loyalty to God.

Additionally, it is known as Elam in the Hebrew Bible, where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of Shem ( see Elam in the Bible ; Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ), although in actuality the Elamites spoke a non-Semitic language isolate.

* Second Lesson from Genesis 22: 15 – 18

While labeled a recitative in the score, it is more appropriately described as a recitative ( from Genesis 1: 21 – 22 ) followed by a very brief aria, the latter a verse paraphrase on the biblical words ( Gen. 1: 22 ) " Be fruitful and multiply.

Genesis performed at The Summit on October 22, 1978.

' wide expanses ') based on Genesis 26: 22: " And he called the name of it Rehoboth ; and he said: ' For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of 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 ".

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Philo had inferred from the expression, " Let us make man ," of Genesis that God had used other beings as assistants in the creation of man, and he explains in this way why man is capable of vice as well as virtue, ascribing the origin of the latter to God, of the former to His helpers in the work of creation.

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

For Jews and Christians alike, the theological importance of Genesis centers on the covenants linking God to his Chosen People and the people to the Promised Land.

Christianity has interpreted Genesis as the prefiguration of certain cardinal Christian beliefs, primarily the need for salvation ( the hope or assurance of all Christians ) and the redemptive act of Christ on the Cross as the fulfillment of covenant promises as the Son of God.

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.

The Genesis creation narrative opens with God creating the first human, whom he places in the divine garden " in Eden in the east ".

The " garden of God " is mentioned in Genesis 14, and the trees of the garden are mentioned in Ezekiel 31, and scattered passages from Ezekiel, Zechariah and the Psalms refer to trees and water in relation to the Temple without explicitly mentioning Eden.

Eastern Orthodox find the first instance of an image or icon in the Bible when God made man in His own image ( Septuagint Greek eikona ), in Genesis 1: 26-27.

There, a mysterious being appeared (" man ", Genesis 32: 24, 28 ; or " God ", Genesis 32: 28, 30, Hosea 12: 3, 5 ; or " angel ", Hosea 12: 4 ), and the two wrestled until daybreak.

Literal Christian interpreters like Henry M. Morris say that the stranger was " God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His preincarnate state ", citing Jacob's own evaluation and the name he assumed thereafter, " one who fights victoriously with God ", and adding that God had appeared in the human form of the Angel of the L < SMALL > ORD </ SMALL > to eat a meal with Abraham in Genesis 18.

The Genesis Device had regenerated Spock's body and restored his life, and he is returned to his home planet where Sarek asks the priestess T ' Lar to perform a fal-tor-pan, reuniting Spock's mind and body.

They argue that Genesis provides man with a model of " stewardship " rather than dominion, and asks man to take care of the world's environment.

* On his search for Ayumi, when the protagonist asks a pimp about Ayumi, references are made to two of Neon Genesis Evangelion's characters, Rei and Asuka ; he offers two girls of these names to the protagonist.

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

:* Lech-Lecha, on Genesis 12 – 17: Abraham, Sarah, Lot, covenant, Hagar and Ishmael, circumcision

Scholars generally agree that the theme of divine promise unites the patriarchal cycles, but many would dispute the idea that a single theme ( or theology ) runs through Genesis – a theology of the Abraham cycle or the Jacob cycle or the Joseph cycle might be possible, or a theology of the Yahwist or the Priestly source, but not a single theology or overarching theme for all of Genesis.

Sayce and other scholars also mention that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts ; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and allied to Abraham in the Book of Genesis.

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 ).

* A Midrash included in Genesis Rabba attributes a major act of iconoclasm to Abraham.

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

Genesis, however, ascribes the laughter to Isaac's parents, Abraham and Sarah, rather than El.

The scriptural basis for this new positive attitude towards Jews among Evangelicals is Genesis 12: 3, in which God promises that He will bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants, and curse those who curse them ( see also " Abrahamic Covenant ").

Central to this doctrine, NOI theology asserts that black people ’ s experience of slavery was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and therefore, black people are the seed of Abraham referred to in the Bible, in Genesis 15: 13 – 14:

In Genesis 21, Abraham agreed a covenant of kindness with the Philistine king Avimelech and his descendants.

Bereshit ( Genesis ) begins with the so-called " primeval history " ( Genesis 1 – 11 ), the story of the world's beginnings and the descent of Abraham.

This is followed by the story of the three patriarchs ( Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ), Joseph ( Genesis 12 – 50 ) and the four matriarchs ( Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel ).

Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis ( Biblical Hebrew ) as the birthplace of the Hebrew patriarch Abram ( Abraham ; Aramaic: Oraham, Arabic: Ibrahim ), traditionally believed to be sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.

Elam ( the nation ) is also mentioned in Genesis 14, describing an ancient war in the time of Abraham, involving a king of Elam it calls Chedorlaomer.

Abrahamic religions are those religions deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ( circa 1900 BCE ), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, where he is described as a prophet ( Genesis 20: 7 ), and in the Quran, where he also appears as a prophet.

Thus ( Leviticus 8: 23 ) is the middle verse in the Pentateuch ; all the names of Divinity mentioned in connection with Abraham are holy except ( Genesis 18: 3 ); ten passages in the Pentateuch are dotted ; three times the Pentateuch has the spelling לא where the reading is לו.

Terah or Térach () is a biblical figure in the book of Genesis, son of Nahor, son of Serug and father of the Patriarch Abraham, all descendants of Shem's son Arpachshad.

In Genesis 25: 3, Sheba and Dedan are listed as names of sons of Jokshan, son of Abraham.

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.

Genesis tells that Abraham and Lot travelled together in the Land of Canaan, but that after awhile they decided to part ways.