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The Flood of Noah and Companions ( c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.
Noah's Ark ( Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1] The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations, in ...
Searches for Noah's Ark have been reported since antiquity, as ancient scholars sought to affirm the historicity of the Genesis flood narrative by citing accounts of relics recovered from the Ark. [1] : 43–47 [2] With the emergence of biblical archaeology in the 19th century, the potential of a formal search attracted interest in alleged ...
The 613 commandments include "positive commandments", to perform an act ( mitzvot aseh ), and "negative commandments", to abstain from an act ( mitzvot lo taaseh ). The negative commandments number 365, which coincides with the number of days in the solar year, and the positive commandments number 248, a number ascribed to the number of bones ...
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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 ...
The ark of bulrushes ( Hebrew: תבת גמא, romanized : têḇaṯ gōme) was a container which, according to the episode known as the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus, carried the infant Moses. The ark, containing the three-month-old baby Moses, was placed in reeds by the river bank [1] (presumably the Nile) to protect him ...
Temple Scroll. Portion of the Temple Scroll. The Temple Scroll ( Hebrew: מגילת המקדש) is the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among the discoveries at Qumran it is designated: 11QTemple Scroll a (11Q19 [11Q Ta ]). It describes a Jewish temple, along with extensive detailed regulations about sacrifices and temple practices.