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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 ...
In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized : ʿêṣ had-daʿaṯ ṭōḇ wā-rāʿ, [ʕesˤ hadaʕaθ tˤov wɔrɔʕ]; Latin: Lignum scientiae boni et mali) is one of two specific trees in the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2–3 ...
Tamar #1 – daughter-in-law of Judah, as well as the mother of two of his children, the twins Zerah and Perez. Genesis [190] Tamar #2 – daughter of King David, and sister of Absalom. Her mother was Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. II Samuel [191] Tamar #3 – daughter of David's son Absalom.
Christian exegetes of Genesis 2:17 ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die") have applied the day-year principle to explain how Adam died within a day. Psalms 90:4, [13] 2 Peter 3:8, [14] and Jubilees 4:29–31 [15] explain that, to God , one day is equivalent to a thousand years and thus Adam died within that same "day". [16]
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the act of birth, inherit a tainted nature with a proclivity to sinful conduct in need of regeneration. [1] The biblical basis for the belief is generally found in Genesis 3 (the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden ), in a line in Psalm 51:5 ("I ...
The Gospel of Matthew [note 1] is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people (the Jews) but is rejected by them and how, after his resurrection, he sends the disciples to the gentiles instead. [3] Matthew wishes to emphasize that the Jewish ...
Lilith (1887) by John Collier. Lilith ( / ˈlɪlɪθ /; Hebrew: לִילִית, romanized : Līlīṯ ), also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized to be the first wife of Adam [1] and a primordial she-demon.
Jared (biblical figure) Jared or Jered ( Hebrew: יֶרֶד Yereḏ, in pausa יָרֶד Yāreḏ, "to descend"; Greek: Ἰάρετ or Ἰάρεδ Iáret; Arabic: يَارَد Yārad ), [1] in the Book of Genesis, was a sixth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve. His primary history is recounted in Genesis 5:18–20 .