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• Leviticus 26Bible

  Leviticus 26 proclaims the blessings that will follow faithfulness to the covenant and the punishments that will come in escalating stages if it is broken. It also promises that, even after Israel has been scattered, God will remember the covenant He made with the patriarchs if the people confess their sin.

• WildernessBible

  The wilderness is arid land on which people find it difficult to settle and farm. In the Bible it is the place where Israel spent forty years after the Exodus, and it is portrayed as a setting of testing, of God's provision, and of new beginnings.

• AbrahamPeople

  Abraham is the ancestor of the people of Israel described in the Book of Genesis. He left his homeland in response to God's call, and Christians often call him "the father of faith."

• Jordan RiverBible

  The Jordan River flows through the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea. In the Bible it is the boundary Israel crossed to enter Canaan and the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.

• Genesis 20Bible

  Genesis 20 recounts how Abraham, while sojourning in Gerar, presented his wife Sarah as his sister. Abimelech, king of Gerar, took her, but after God warned him in a dream, he returned her.

• Genesis 27Bible

  Genesis 27 is the chapter in which Jacob, through a deception devised by Rebekah, receives the blessing that the aged Isaac intended for his firstborn son, Esau, and then prepares to leave home to escape Esau's anger.

• Genesis 36Bible

  Genesis 36 is a genealogy recording the wives and descendants of Esau (Edom), his move to Mount Seir, the Horites who lived in that land before him, and the eight kings and the chiefs of Edom.

• BeershebaBible

  Beersheba was a town at the southern edge of the land of Judah, in the northern Negev. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dug wells and worshiped God there, and the expression "from Dan to Beersheba" marks the southern boundary of Israel.

• Genesis 21Bible

  Genesis 21 recounts the birth of Isaac in fulfillment of God's promise, the sending away of Hagar and her son and their rescue in the wilderness, and Abraham's covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba.

• Genesis 28Bible

  Genesis 28 recounts how Jacob, fleeing his brother Esau on his way to his uncle Laban, dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven and receives God's promise, then names the place Bethel and makes a vow.

• CanaanBible

  Canaan is the land lying between the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is the "Promised Land" that God pledged to give to Abraham and his descendants, and it is the principal setting of Old Testament Israel's history.

• EgyptBible

  Egypt is the ancient nation in the Nile River valley of northeastern Africa. It is the setting of the Joseph narrative and the Exodus, and in Scripture it serves as a place symbolizing both bondage and deliverance.

• AramBible

  Aram is the Old Testament name for a Semitic people who lived in what is now Syria and northern Mesopotamia, and for the states they established. In the New Testament the region is usually called Syria.

• Primeval HistoryBible

  Primeval history is a scholarly term for Genesis 1–11, the part of Genesis that precedes Abraham and recounts the beginnings of the world and of humanity as a whole rather than of a particular people.

• NegevBible

  The Negev is a biblical place name for the arid region of southern Judah around Beersheba. The Hebrew word is also used to mean "south," so many passages render it simply as "the south."

• SojournerBible

  A sojourner is a person who has left his or her own land and lives in a land belonging to others. Old Testament law commands the protection of sojourners, and the New Testament calls believers sojourners in the world.

• NegevBible

  The Negev is an Old Testament place name for the arid region south of the hill country of Judah, extending around Beersheba and Arad. In Hebrew the word can also denote the compass direction "south."

• SojournerBible

  A sojourner, or resident alien, is a biblical term for a foreigner who has left his homeland and lives among another people. The Old Testament law commands that such people be protected, and the New Testament applies the term to Christian identity.

• SeirBible

  Seir is an Old Testament place name for the mountainous region south of the Dead Sea. Because Esau and his descendants, the Edomites, lived there, Scripture often uses the name as a synonym for Edom.

• Genesis 12Bible

  Genesis 12 is the chapter in which God calls Abram to leave Haran and go to Canaan, promising to make of him a great nation and to bless him. It then recounts how Abram, fleeing a famine, went down into Egypt and deceptively presented his wife Sarai as his sister.