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  2. New Revised Standard Version - Wikipedia

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    The New Revised Standard Version ( NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches, [8] the NRSV was created by an ecumenical committee of scholars "comprising about thirty members". [9] The NRSV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and ...

  3. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity. [1] The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies ...

  4. Douay–Rheims Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Douay–Rheims Bible (/ ˌ d uː eɪ ˈ r iː m z, ˌ d aʊ eɪ-/, [1] US also / d uː ˌ eɪ-/), also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church. [2]

  5. Moffatt, New Translation - Wikipedia

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    John 3:16. For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. Moffatt, New Translation (MNT) is an abbreviation of the title The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, a New Translation by James Moffatt .

  6. Rape in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    [60] Frank M. Yamada (2008) argues that the abrupt transition between Genesis 34:2 and 34:3 was a storytelling technique due to the fact that the narrative focused on the men, a pattern which he perceives in other rape narratives as well, also arguing that the men's responses are depicted in a mixed light. "The rape of Dinah is narrated in a ...

  7. Revised English Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Revised English Bible ( REB) is a 1989 English-language translation of the Bible that updates the New English Bible (NEB) of 1970. As with its predecessor, it is published by the publishing houses of both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is not to be confused with the Revised English Bible of 1877, which was an annotated and ...

  8. Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 2 - Wikipedia

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    Bible/Featured chapter/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 ...

  9. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery - Wikipedia

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    Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a most likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage found in John 7:53–8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives. A group of scribes and Pharisees confronts Jesus, interrupting his teaching.