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• Hosea (Prophet)People

  Hosea was a prophet active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC and is the central figure of the biblical Book of Hosea. The account of his marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer, whom he continued to love, is read as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• GomerPeople

  Gomer was the wife of the prophet Hosea and appears in Hosea 1 as the daughter of Diblaim. The marriage of Hosea and Gomer serves as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• Numbers 28Bible

  Numbers 28 sets out the kinds and quantities of offerings to be presented as the daily continual burnt offering and on the Sabbath, the new moon, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Weeks. Together with chapter 29, it forms Israel's annual calendar of sacrifices.

• Numbers 1Bible

  Numbers 1 records how, in the second year after the Exodus, Moses and Aaron numbered the men of the twelve tribes in the wilderness of Sinai who were twenty years old and upward and able to go to war, arriving at a total of 603,550. The tribe of Levi was excluded from the count and given charge of the tabernacle.

• Book of EnochBible

  The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic work transmitted under the name of Enoch, the figure in Genesis. One of its passages is quoted in Jude 1:14-15, but neither Protestants nor Catholics regard it as canonical.

• LeviticusBible

  Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament and the third book of the Pentateuch. It contains regulations concerning sacrifices, the priesthood, laws of purity, and holy living, and consists of 27 chapters.

• Gospel of NicodemusBible

  The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient Christian text that recounts the trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his descent into Hades. Also known as the Acts of Pilate, it is a work of New Testament apocrypha and is not part of the biblical canon.

• Exodus 22Bible

  Exodus 22 is part of the Book of the Covenant, the collection of laws given at Mount Sinai. It contains regulations on restitution for theft and property damage, liability for goods held in trust, the protection of the stranger, the widow, the fatherless, and the poor, and laws concerning offerings to God and holiness.

• Ezekiel 46Bible

  A chapter in the Book of Ezekiel's vision of the new temple. It sets out the order of worship for the prince and the people on Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed feasts, along with the daily morning burnt offering, regulations governing the prince's grants of land, and the temple kitchens where the sacrifices are boiled.

• GleaningBible

  Gleaning was an Old Testament legal institution requiring that fallen ears of grain and leftover fruit be left at harvest for the poor and the stranger to gather. It is best known from the Book of Ruth, where Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz.

• Leviticus 16Bible

  Leviticus 16 contains the regulations for the Day of Atonement, when the high priest Aaron enters the Most Holy Place once a year to make atonement for himself, for the people, and for the sanctuary. It describes the rite in which one of two goats is sent into the wilderness for Azazel.

• Jeremiah 3Bible

  Jeremiah 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It rebukes idolatrous Israel and Judah by likening them to a wife who has betrayed her husband, yet it also calls them to repentance and restoration with the words "Return, ye backsliding children."

• Numbers 36Bible

  Numbers 36 is the final chapter of the Book of Numbers. When the heads of the families of the children of Gilead fear that the inheritance (land) granted to the daughters of Zelophehad might pass to another tribe, Moses, in accordance with the word of the LORD, rules that daughters who inherit must marry within the tribe of their fathers.

• Numbers 6Bible

  Numbers 6 sets out the regulations for the Nazirite vow, by which any man or woman may voluntarily be set apart to God, and contains the "Aaronic Blessing" that the priests pronounce over Israel.

• Exodus 21Bible

  Exodus 21 is the first part of the laws attached to the Sinai covenant. It contains case laws on the release of Hebrew servants, capital offenses, bodily injury, and damages caused by oxen and open pits.

• Numbers 35Bible

  Numbers 35 contains the ordinance granting the Levites forty-eight cities with their surrounding pasturelands, the system of six cities of refuge that protects those who have killed someone unintentionally, and the principles for judging cases of homicide.

• Galileo AffairHistory

  The Galileo affair was the episode in which the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, after defending heliocentrism, was convicted by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between science and faith.

• Jeremiah 31:31–33Bible Verses

  God's promise to make a new covenant with Israel and Judah and to write his law on their hearts. It is the principal Old Testament passage in which the phrase "new covenant" appears. The New Testament presents this promise as fulfilled in Christ, and the passage stands at the center of debates among theological systems over the relationship between the church and Israel.

• Numbers 6:22-27Bible Verses

  A three-line blessing that God gave through Moses for the priests, Aaron and his sons, to use in blessing the people of Israel. Known as the Aaronic Blessing or the Priestly Blessing, it has long served as the closing benediction in both Jewish and Christian worship.

• Deuteronomy 6:4–5Bible Verses

  Known as the Shema, this passage begins, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD." It is the central confession of faith in Judaism, was cited by Jesus as the greatest commandment, and serves as the starting point for discussions of the relationship between monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity.