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  2. Genesis flood narrative - Wikipedia

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    Genesis flood narrative. 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 ...

  3. Biblical literalist chronology - Wikipedia

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    2 Kings 15:12 2 Kings 15:17–20 1 Chronicles 5:6 1 Chronicles 5:26 2 Chronicles 26:3 Hosea 1:1 Amos 1:1 Jonah 1:1 Jonah 3 Zechariah 14:5: 758–742 Ante C. 758→: Jotham reigned 16 years, and he died. He was 41 years old (25 + 16). Hosea, Jonah, Amos, Isaiah, Micah were prophets. 758. The year of Isaiah's vision of the LORD in the Temple ...

  4. Lech-Lecha - Wikipedia

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    While Leviticus 12:6–8 required a new mother to bring a burnt-offering and a sin-offering, Genesis 15:2 and 1 Samuel 1:5–11 characterize childlessness as a misfortune; Leviticus 26:9, Deuteronomy 28:11, and Psalm 127:3–5 make clear that having children is a blessing from God, and Leviticus 20:20 and Deuteronomy 28:18 threaten ...

  5. Book of Jubilees - Wikipedia

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    Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees [a] is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Jubilees is considered one of the pseudepigrapha by the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches. [1]

  6. Garden of Eden - Wikipedia

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    Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) The Expulsion illustrated in the English Junius manuscript, c. 1000 CE. The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with YHWH-Elohim (translated here "the L ORD God") [a] creating the first man (), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden": [21]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Thou shalt not kill - Wikipedia

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    The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549). The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.. Thou shalt not kill (LXX, KJV; Ancient Greek: Οὐ φονεύσεις, romanized: Ou phoneúseis), You shall not murder (NIV, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח, romanized: Lo tirṣaḥ) or Do not murder (), is a moral ...

  9. Young Earth creationism - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, Old Earth Creationists tend to interpret the genealogies as incomplete, and usually interpret the days of Genesis 1 figuratively as long periods of time. Young Earth creationists believe that the flood described in Genesis 6–9 did occur, was global in extent, and submerged all dry land on Earth.