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• Codex SinaiticusBible

  Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It was discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai and is known as the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament.

• Numbers 20Bible

  Numbers 20 recounts the death of Miriam at Kadesh and the incident at the waters of Meribah, after which Moses and Aaron are told that they will not enter Canaan. The chapter also records Edom's refusal to let Israel pass through its territory and the death of Aaron on Mount Hor.

• Numbers 15Bible

  Numbers 15 contains regulations for the offerings to be observed after entering Canaan, the heave offering of a cake from the first of the dough, the distinction between unintentional and deliberate sin, the punishment of a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath, and the law concerning fringes on garments.

• Leviticus 23Bible

  Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

• Hosea 4Bible

  Hosea 4 is the chapter in which the LORD brings charges against the people and priests of the northern kingdom of Israel. It pronounces judgment on the sin and idolatry that arose from their lack of the knowledge of God.

• James 1Bible

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• Leviticus 18Bible

  Leviticus 18 commands the people of Israel not to follow the customs of Egypt and Canaan. It contains laws prohibiting sexual relations with close relatives, adultery, offering children to Molech, same-sex intercourse, and bestiality.

• Leviticus 27Bible

  Leviticus 27, the final chapter of Leviticus, sets out the valuation and redemption of persons, animals, houses, and fields vowed to the LORD, along with regulations on devoted things and the tithe.

• Richard BaxterPeople

  Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an English Puritan minister and writer. He is known for his pastoral ministry of household visitation and catechetical instruction in the parish of Kidderminster and for his book The Reformed Pastor.

• Q SourceBible

  The Q source is a hypothetical collection of the sayings of Jesus that scholars posit as the source of material found in both Matthew and Luke but absent from Mark. No manuscript copy of it survives.

• MishnahBible

  The Mishnah is a written compilation, made around the late second or early third century, of the interpretations of the law that Jewish rabbis had transmitted orally. It does not appear in the Bible, but it serves as background material for understanding the "tradition of the elders" and the Sabbath controversies in the Gospels.

• Ecclesiastes 12:13–14Bible Verses

  The closing words of Ecclesiastes, which declare that to fear God and keep His commandments is the whole duty of man and that God will bring every work into judgment. The passage is frequently cited as a condensed statement of the book's conclusion, and its relationship to the main body of the book is also debated.

• Deuteronomy 19:15Bible Verses

  Deuteronomy 19:15 is an Old Testament legal provision directing that guilt not be established on the testimony of a single person but confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. The New Testament cites it several times, and it is frequently invoked in discussions of church discipline and of procedures for handling accusations.

• Deuteronomy 19:18-21Bible Verses

  A provision in Deuteronomy on perjury. It requires that a person who bears false witness in court receive the very penalty he intended to bring upon another. Because it contains the principle of "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," it is frequently discussed in connection with the Sermon on the Mount.

• Book of RuthBible

  The Book of Ruth is the eighth book of the Old Testament. It tells the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman who follows her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem, marries Boaz, and becomes the great-grandmother of David.

• Book of JobBible

  A book of the Old Testament belonging to the wisdom literature. It tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers for reasons unknown to him, debates with his friends, and encounters God, and it addresses the question of why the righteous suffer.

• Book of BaruchBible

  The Book of Baruch is a work attributed to Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches include it in the canon (in Catholic terminology, as a deuterocanonical book), while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha and do not include it in the Bible.

• Book of JasherBible

  The Book of Jasher is an ancient Israelite record cited in the Old Testament. It is named in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18, and the original has not survived.

• Book of the CovenantBible

  The Book of the Covenant is the book that Moses read aloud to the people in Exodus 24:7. In scholarship and in the church, the name is commonly applied to the collection of laws in Exodus 20:22–23:33.

• Book of RemembranceBible

  The book of remembrance is the book that, according to Malachi 3:16, is written before God for those who fear the LORD. The expression conveys that God does not forget the faithful but remembers them.