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The birthright was Joseph’s?
The answer is: The promise of God goes to the chosen one. It does not follow man's practice.
For example, Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, but the promise went to Isaac
Gen 21:12 - But God said ...
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To which beginning is the word 'beginning' (arche) referring in the Gospel of John, outside of the prologue?
Overview of the Gospel
An examination of the verses with ἀρχή shows John was purposeful to compose the Gospel so that the uses in the Prologue would be distinct from the uses in the rest of the Gospel:...
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How old was Sarai when she was in Egypt?
The answer by Dottard above with the dates are helpful. In Genesis 12 Sarai is approximately 65 years old, and in Genesis 20 she is now +76 years old.
However, I don't agree that it's simply that she ...
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Genesis 2 and 3 - Why was nudity suddenly a shame for Adam?
There is a deeply spiritual dimension to all of this. For further consideration by those interested in plumbing deeper depths in this account of the first couple's nakedness, I begin by quoting from ...
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Is there a chronological issue in Genesis 25,26 and 27?
Isaac at the time of the blessing was roughly the same age as when Ishmael passed away and Rebekah had to be at least 100+....so the earlier chapters are correct in their listing.
I highly doubt ...
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Why would Deborah’s death be recorded, and not that of Rebekah herself (Genesis 35:8)? And why was she buried beneath a terebinth?
The Book of Jubilees has Rebekah dying at 155 years old...5 years before Isaac.
Deborah at that point would have had to be at least 180 years old, the same as Isaac or older!
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Genesis 1:26 and 28 tells mankind to "subdue" the earth and "rule over" various animals. Exactly what is meant by this in relation to large animals?
I believe until the flood came all animals were not meat eaters, neither were humans. In Gods kingdom it will go back that way. All animals will eat vegetation.( Isaiah 11:7) Isaiah 11 a description ...
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Genesis 1:26 and 28 tells mankind to "subdue" the earth and "rule over" various animals. Exactly what is meant by this in relation to large animals?
Given what little is said about animals in the creation account of Genesis, we can only go by what is there. We need to stick to the verses you ask about.
After assigning Adam to perform horticulture ...
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What do we know about the gender of nephilim?
The question that is being asked is not an easy one. It is not easy because it has to do with some of the more difficult parts of Hebrew language and usage. The areas of concern are:
What does &...
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Where did the information come from for Moses to write Genesis since he was born generations beyond 'Adam'?
God used holy spirit to guide the words of his bible.
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Where did the information come from for Moses to write Genesis since he was born generations beyond 'Adam'?
Where did the information come from for Moses to write Genesis since he was born generations beyond 'Adam'?<
This is not a hard question to answer. Enoch, the 7th generation from Adam, wrote a ...
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What do we know about the gender of nephilim?
I understood that the "Sons of God" were the angels. Since these angels could mate with women, they must have been male. The offsprings of the angels were called the Nephilim. They were ...
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Who are the sons of Hamor in Genesis 33:19?
The inhabitants of Shechem are still regarding Hamor as their father in Judges ch9 v28.
I suggest that "father of Shechem" in this case means "founder of the town of Shechem", and ...
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Was Noah's allowed to eat unclean animals in Genesis 9:3?
Not one other time in the bible is רֶמֶשׂ remes used to describe all the living animals.
Every 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given
everything to you, as I gave the ...
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Why was Rachel buried along the road and not in the family tomb in the Cave of Machpelah?
Unless there was words of the deceased, otherwise the Scripture usually described the deaths were buried in where they died.
Genesis 35:8 - Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the ...
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Why was Rachel buried along the road and not in the family tomb in the Cave of Machpelah?
According to the sources I check it was under 14 miles from Bethlehem to Machphelah. Even if your mileage is correct (20) then walking at a slow speed of 2 miles an hour and given short rest periods ...
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Tithing in the churches today
In my experience, people struggle with returning their tithes to God when they see it as giving money to people. True, tithes are for the support of the clergy, the "Levites" among us. ...
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What is the significance of the "horror of great darkness" in Gen 15.12?
Abraham failed to cut the two birds in half. He failed to make the offering properly. He was not serious. He fell asleep. Attending God is not a lighthearted matter, either for us or a central figure ...
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Tithing in the churches today
Tithing becomes a matter of debate whenever anyone tries to turn it into a law which Christians must obey.
For "we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we ...
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Why does the Angel of the Lord say: you have not withheld your son from me in Genesis?
In ancient Middle Eastern culture, authorized servants were often empowered to act on behalf of and in the name of their masters. One example of this is Abraham sending his servant to find a wife for ...
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Why does the Bible say that Abraham sacrificed his "only-begotten son"?
Many translations say son not only begotten son. And Genesis 25:9 says:
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
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Why on earth did Lot not leave Sodom if "[he] was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard" (2 Peter 2:8)?
He saw no good alternative
Let's look at the reasons that Genesis actually gives for Lot living there.
Recall that he separated from Abraham because their flocks were immense and unable to cohabitate ...
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Why on earth did Lot not leave Sodom if "[he] was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard" (2 Peter 2:8)?
Lot’s lot
Was Lot a righteous man in God’s eyes? There is no written evidence for this between Genesis 12 and Genesis 19. Only a reference in 2 Peter alludes to that but not convincingly.
Was God ...
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Why on earth did Lot not leave Sodom if "[he] was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard" (2 Peter 2:8)?
Let's recall why Abraham and Lot Separate. Genesis 13:5-7a
5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6 But the land could not support them while they stayed ...
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Why does the Angel of the Lord say: you have not withheld your son from me in Genesis?
The simple answer is because the angel of the Lord is God in the person of Jesus Christ before He incarnated.
Notice at Genesis 22:1 it says, "God tested Abraham."
At Genesis 22:9 Abraham ...
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Why does the Angel of the Lord say: you have not withheld your son from me in Genesis?
This is what I call the "representative spokesman convention", in which the spokesman repeats somebody else's words in the first person, as though they were his own.
The most obvious example ...
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Why did God give Adam the specific task of naming the animals in Genesis 2:19-20?
The question starts with "When God began creating things he took it upon himself to name the things he had created."
In Genesis 2:1 we read (KJV)
Thus the heavens and the earth were ...
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Could there be some deeper/Spiritual meaning why darkness was created ahead of light in Genesis 1:2?
In a material universe, where there is no light, there must of necessity be darkness.
In a spiritual reality, where there is no spiritual light, there must of necessity be spiritual darkness.
In a ...
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Any connection between Genesis 1:2 and Psalm 42:7: deep calls to deep?
This morning I was reading Psalm 42 and came across the expression "deep calls to deep" in verse 7 and I wondered what that meant.
I noticed that whereas the King James Version said "...
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Why does the Bible put the evening before the morning at the end of each day that God worked in Genesis chapter one?
God is the first Bringer of Light.
Light without dark to reflect it, --- cannot exist.
He and all of us know this
When God paints, he needs a dark canvas.
What happens in the bible is a metaphor for ...
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How to save Paul from the Galatians 3 "seed" vs "seeds" argument blunder?
Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles. He would use the LXX when pointing them to the OT:
15 For all the
land that you see, I will give it to you and to your
offspring forever 16 And I will make your ...
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Is the angel of the Lord in Genesis 16:7-13 and Matthew 1:18-20 one and the same?
To address your very last sentence Alex, yes, there is only one angel of the Lord, period. Secondly, "The" angel of the Lord "NEVER" appears in the New Testament as "the angel ...
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Is the angel of the Lord in Genesis 16:7-13 and Matthew 1:18-20 one and the same?
The only named angel in the Bible is Gabriel who is named just four times in the Bible: Dan 8:16, 9:21, Luke 1:19, 26.
Since the LORD has many angels (Gen 28:12, 32:1, Deut 32:43, Heb 1:6, Luke 12:8, ...
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Is the angel of the Lord in Genesis 16:7-13 and Matthew 1:18-20 one and the same?
Summary: We cannot know if the angel is the same unless the angel is named in both places.
Is there only one angel of the lord, or are there more?
One might think that there is only one angel of the ...
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How to save Paul from the Galatians 3 "seed" vs "seeds" argument blunder?
I will not repeat what has already been stated in other answers.
It is clear without doubt that Paul is attempting to misuse the OT to singular to apply to Jesus only.
It is clear from numerous OT ...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of Jeremiah 34:18?
Jer 34:18 is tricky to translate because it contains several puns and double meanings. I will attempt to elucidate them.
"Covenant" = בְּרִית = "cut".
The word of covenant in ...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of Jeremiah 34:18?
That's exactly the functional meaning of the verse as translated by the NLT so precisely.
JFB commentary states:
passed between the parts thereof—The contracting parties in the "covenant" (...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of Jeremiah 34:18?
I surmise that the oath which accompanied the making of a covenant was something like;
"May the Lord do the same to me, and more also if I do not keep the words of this oath". The meaning of ...
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How is Japheth is enlarged if confined to the tents of Shem? Gen 9:27
You are all dead wrong! Some of you are on to some truth, but are completely lost! People in the middle east are mostly Ham and Japeth mix. There are no Shemites in the middle east today. Noah's three ...
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