* Joseph ( film ), a German / Italian / American television movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible, in (), tells the account of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob.

In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God helped the Children of Israel escape slavery in Egypt by inflicting ten plagues upon the Egyptians before the Pharaoh would release his Israelite slaves ; the tenth and worst of the plagues was the death of the Egyptian first-born.

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The Bible tells a story in which the Israelites escaped from Egypt, met Yahweh on a mountain-top in the wilderness, agreed to become his chosen people, and conquered Canaan with his help.

There are two occasions where the Bible tells of the rod's power even when it was not being held by its owner.

The Bible ( Genesis 6: 4-5 ) tells of giants called Nephilim before and after the Flood:

The Bible also tells of Gog and Magog, who later entered into European folklore, and of the famous battle between David and the Philistine giant Goliath.

The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read.

" Common misunderstandings of conservatives by conservatives are that " Conservatism nothing else is for traditional values ", and that " Conservatism is just what the Bible tells us.

" York reports back for duty and tells his superiors that he can serve his country, leaving the matter in God's hands, though he still has doubts that whether the Bible allows that he can kill someone.

Eugenie Scott called the society an example of " extreme Biblical-literalist theology: The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us.

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

Local history tells that Mrs. Carter donated a Bible to the community church on the premise that it be named for her.

The Islamic version differs further from the Bible, because in Islamic sources, Abraham tells his son about the vision, and his son agrees to be sacrificed.

: The Bible tells us the Good News that God still loves us and has shown His love uniquely in His Son, Jesus Christ.

The Silver Jews song Pet Politics contains the line " Adam was not the first man ' though the Bible tells us so.

The Bible tells us that Saul, David and Solomon ( late 11th to 10th centuries ) fought against the Arameans kingdoms across the northern frontier of Israel: Aram-Sôvah in the Beq ’ a, Aram-Bêt-Rehob and Aram-Ma ’ akah around Mount Hermon, Geshur in the Hauran, and Aram-Damascus.

He tells that The Satanic Bible contains both truth and fantasy, and declares, " What you see may not always please you, but you will see!

Written in the first or second century AD / CE, the Epistle of James in the New Testament of the Christian Bible tells followers of Jesus: “ Now listen, you who say, ‘ Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money .’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.

The Bible contains many examples of foreknowledge or prophecy, such as, where God tells Moses that the Israelites will forsake God after they are delivered from Egypt.

" Jeffords tells him to read the Bible for him, " because I like the way you read it.

An old legend tells how Sir Thomas is shown with no hands because they withered away after he threw his wife's Bible in the fire.

Sedgwick expressed concern for " our glorious maidens and matrons .... listening to the seductions of this author ; who comes before them with a bright, polished, and many-coloured surface, and the serpent coils of a false philosophy, and asks them again to stretch out their hands and pluck forbidden fruit ", who tells them " that their Bible is a fable when it teaches them that they were made in the image of God — that they are the children of apes and breeders of monsters — that he has annulled all distinction between physical and moral ", which in Sedgwick's view would lead to " a rank, unbending and degrading materialism " lacking the proper reading of nature as analogy to draw moral lessons from physical truths.

So, I put my Bible to the practical test of noting what it says about itself, and then tested it to see how it worked.

) Not knowing how it had occurred, she spent the next three years studying the Bible, experimenting and praying to discover if the experience was repeatable and if there were knowable laws that governed it.

The movement's rabbinic authorities and its official Torah commentary ( Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary ) affirm that Jews should make use of modern critical literary and historical analysis to understand how the Bible developed.

Biblia Americana contained Cotton Mather's thoughts and opinions on the Bible and how he interpreted it.

They often interpret passages of the Bible as being less a record of actual events, but rather stories illustrating how to live ethically and authentically in relation to God.

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

They begin with a critique of the past ” such that they review the ways women have been oppressed ; “ they seek alternative biblical and extrabiblical traditions that support ” the ideals Feminists are trying to advance ; and finally “ feminists set forth their own unique method of theology, which includes the revisioning of Christian categories .” Grenz and Olson also mention, however, while all feminists agree there is a flaw in the system, there is disagreement over how far outside of the Bible and the Christian tradition women are willing to go to seek support for their ideals.

While describing how the Bible predicts Muhammad, he speaks of the " Gospel of Saint Barnabas where one can find the light " (" y así mismo en Evangelio de San Bernabé, donde se hallará la luz ").

At least since first-wave feminism in the United States, there has been interest in analyzing religion to see if and how doctrines and practices treat women unfairly, as in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible.

Gavin MacLeod appeared in Rich Christiano's Time Changer, a movie about time travel and how the morals of society have moved away from the Bible.

The Bible describes how the children of Israel ( Hebrews ) were enslaved in Egypt and they multiplied greatly.

In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Hebrew Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him.

The Qur ' an, much like the Bible and Torah, has a vague condemnation of homosexuality and how it should be dealt with, leaving it open to interpretation.

In the Epistle of James, the Bible urges Christians to be patient, and " see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth ,... until it receives the early and the late rains.

Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.

Bill Bright's leadership with Campus Crusade, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, The Joshua Project, and others brought about the need to know who these " unreached people groups " are and how those wanting to tell about the Christian God and share a Christian Bible could reach them.

In his undelivered speech " How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later ", Dick recounts how in describing an incident at the end of the book ( end of chapter 27 ) to an Episcopalian priest, the priest noted its striking similarity to a scene in the Books of Acts in the Bible.

The doctrine of Perseverance of the Saints is distinct from the doctrine of Assurance which describes how a person may first be sure that they have obtained salvation and an inheritance in the promises of the Bible including eternal life.

The Bible colleges prepared ministers who lacked college or seminary experience with intense study of the Bible, often using the Scofield Reference Bible of 1909, which was the King James version with detailed notes explaining how to interpret Dispensationalist passages.

Their opposition to birthdays is said to be based on how the Bible presents them.