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  2. Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    e. 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' ).

  3. List of women in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 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]

  5. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Original sin - Wikipedia

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    Original sin. Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve ( The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens) 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]

  8. Melchizedek - Wikipedia

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    In the Bible, Melchizedek ( / mɛlˈkɪzədɛk /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק‎, romanized: malkī-ṣeḏeq, 'king of righteousness,' 'my king is righteousness,' or ‘my king is Zedek ’ [2] ), also transliterated Melchisedech or Malki Tzedek, was the king of Salem and priest of El Elyon (often translated as 'most high ...

  9. Book of Jubilees - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. German translation of Jubilees, 1856. 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 ...