The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

Jacob was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre ( outside Hebron ).

The Hebron of the Bible was centered on what is now known as Tel Rumeida, while its ritual centre was located at Elonei Mamre.

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17: And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18: Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

9: And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; 10: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

The appearance of the three angels to Abraham at Mamre was a type of the Holy Trinity, not an appearance of the Holy Trinity itself.

The first grant here was in 1810, straddling Elizabeth Drive and Mamre Road.

< BLOCKQUOTE > Genesis 49: 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Mamre being the name of one of the three Amorite chiefs who joined forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of Chedorlaomer to save Lot.

19: And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

*: And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite 30: In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

*: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Although they had always maintained a camp on or around the Mamre estate ( which is found adjacent to St Clair, in the suburb of St Marys the Rev.

Mamre Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States.

It lies approximately half way between Halhul and Hebron, ( heading north from Hebron to Halhul at the intersection of the Halhul / Hebron road and the 3507, one turns right on to the 3507 towards Jericho from Bayt Jibrin and Mamre is to be found some 500 yards further down, on the left ).

Tanakh with both vowels and cantillation is also available as online freeware from Mechon Mamre ( see below ).

There is a branch office of the Penrith City Council in Mamre Road along with a library.

The St Marys & District Historical Society is open to the public on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Community Centre complex located on Mamre Road on the Southern side of the Great Western Highway.

The suburb is bordered by Erskine Park Road to the east, the M4 Motorway on the north and Mamre Road along its western boundary.

It is on the corner of Mamre Road and Banks Drive.

In the far north of the suburb Ropes Creek flows in the north-west in a south-north direction and in the north-west, west of Mamre Road, is Cosgrove Hill.

Mamre (; ), full Hebrew name Elonei Mamre (" Oaks / Terebinths of Mamre "), refers to a Canaanite cultic shrine dedicated to the supreme, sky god of the Canaanite pantheon, El.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

* Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

This assumption would imply that the biblical account is not chronological.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The biblical account of the life of Jacob is found in the Book of Genesis, chapters 25-50.

The biblical account of this vision () is one of the standard Old Testament readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos.

Archaeological evidence confirms the biblical account of his reign as the most prosperous that Israel had yet known.

William Albright held a more favorable view towards the traditional views regarding Moses, and accepted the essence of the biblical story, as narrated between Exodus 1: 8 and Deuteronomy 34: 12, but recognized the impact that centuries of oral and written transmission have had on the account, causing it to acquire layers of accretions.

Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower " with its top in the heavens ... lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth ".

He will venture as far to the east as Ceylon, become a monk, and write " Topographia Christiana " to vindicate the biblical account of the world ( see 550 ).

The site is held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims ; the name of the area, is el-Muhraqa, an Arabic construction meaning " place of burning ", and is a direct reference to the biblical account.

Like most of his episodes, Blind Harry's account of the battle of Stirling Bridge is highly improbable, for example his use of figures of a biblical magnitude for the size of the participating armies.

The biblical account describes Goliath as falling on his face after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Christian scholars argue that the biblical account might make sense if one recalls that Agrippa had been born and raised to revere his Jewishness.

The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.

In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; Benjamin being differentiated by being that part of Ephraim which joined the Kingdom of Judah rather than that of Israel.

In the account of the deuteronomic history, Ephraim is portrayed as domineering, haughty, discontented, and jealous, but in classical rabbinical literature, the biblical founder of the tribe is described as being modest and not selfish.