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The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves, economic roles of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. [ 1]
Writer, missionary nurse. Patricia Mary St. John (5 April 1919 – 15 August 1993) was a British evangelical writer and missionary. She was known as one of the most prolific evangelical writers of fiction in the latter part of the 20th century. She worked for much of her life as a missionary nurse in Morocco. During her time as a house mother ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21][ 22][ 23] India [ 24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 25] and the cities of Syracuse [ 26] and Rome specifically [ 27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 28]
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the ending of the parable, from the Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Friend at Night (also known as the Parable of the Friend at Midnight or of the Importunate Neighbour) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5–8. In it, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands ...
Cush or Kush (/ k ʊ ʃ, k ʌ ʃ / Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš; Ge'ez: ኩሽ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the oldest son of Ham and a grandson of Noah. He was the brother of Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. Cush was the father of Nimrod. [1] [2]
The non-canonical books referenced in the Bible includes non-Biblical cultures and lost works of known or unknown status. By the "Bible" is meant those books recognized by Christians and Jews as being part of Old Testament (or Tanakh) as well as those recognized by most Christians as being part of the Biblical apocrypha or of the Deuterocanon .
Land of Uz. Uz has often been identified as either Aram in modern-day Syria (teal) or Edom in modern-day Jordan (yellow). The land of Uz ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ־עוּץ – ʾereṣ-ʿŪṣ) is a location mentioned in the Old Testament, most prominently in the Book of Job, which begins, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job ". [ 1]
e. " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image " ( Hebrew: לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, romanized : Lōʾ-t̲aʿăśeh lək̲ā p̲esel, wək̲ol-təmûnāh) is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, were spoken by God to the Israelites ...