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Javan. Javan ( Hebrew: יָוָן, Modern: Yavan, Tiberian: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah 's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" ( Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks . Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or ...
GENESIS 2. On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day. God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it. Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the " Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ." God then brings all the animals to Adam and Adam names them.
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is in ...
King James Only movement. The First Page of the Book of Genesis in the 1611 printing of the KJV. The King James Only movement (also known as King James Onlyism or KJV Onlyism) asserts the belief that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. Adherents of the King James Only movement, mostly ...
Until the release of the New World Translation, Jehovah's Witnesses in English-speaking countries primarily used the King James Version. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 19 ] According to the publishers, one of the main reasons for producing a new translation was that most Bible versions in common use, including the Authorized Version (King James), employed ...
Book of Genesis. The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ).
v. t. e. In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of life ( Hebrew: עֵץ הַחַיִּים, romanized : ‘ēṣ haḥayyīm; Latin: Lignum vitae) [1] is first described in chapter 2, verse 9 of the Book of Genesis as being "in the midst of the Garden of Eden " with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב ...
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. The Orthodox Study Bible ( OSB) is an Eastern Orthodox study Bible published by Thomas Nelson in 2008. It uses an English translation of the Septuagint by St. Athanasius Academy for the Old Testament and the ...