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• HirahPeople

  Hirah is an Adullamite in Genesis 38 and the friend of Judah, the son of Jacob. At Judah's request he took a young goat to recover the pledge Judah had left with a woman, but he could not find her.

• AnahPeople

  Anah is a Horite of the land of Seir mentioned in Genesis 36. He was the son of Zibeon and the father of Oholibamah, a wife of Esau, and he is recorded as having found "hot springs" in the wilderness, a word whose meaning is disputed.

• Creation and EvolutionControversies

  The debate over how to understand the creation account in Genesis together with the explanations of modern science. The principal positions are young-earth creationism, old-earth creationism, and theistic evolution (evolutionary creation).

• 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."

• AdamPeople

  Adam is the first human being in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. According to the biblical account, God formed him from the dust of the ground, and he was expelled from the Garden of Eden after he and his wife Eve ate the forbidden fruit.

• NoahPeople

  Noah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Genesis who, at God's command, built an ark and survived the Great Flood with his family and the animals. After the Flood he received the covenant of the rainbow.

• EnochPeople

  Enoch is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. The seventh generation from Adam and the father of Methuselah, he is recorded as having walked with God and as having been taken by God without seeing death.

• SarahPeople

  Sarah is the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac in the Book of Genesis. Originally named Sarai, she remained childless into old age and, according to the biblical account, bore Isaac at the age of ninety in fulfillment of God's promise.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)People

  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.

• RebekahPeople

  Rebekah is the wife of Isaac in the Book of Genesis and the mother of the twin brothers Esau and Jacob. A granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother, she is the daughter of Bethuel and the sister of Laban.

• IsaacPeople

  Isaac is a patriarch in the Book of Genesis, the son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. He is best known for nearly being offered as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, and he was the father of Jacob and Esau.

• MethuselahPeople

  Methuselah is an antediluvian figure in the genealogy of Genesis 5, the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah. Having lived 969 years, he is recorded as the longest-lived person in the Bible.

• Ur of the ChaldeesBible

  Ur of the Chaldees is the Mesopotamian city where Abraham lived with his family before he left in obedience to God's call. It appears in Genesis and Nehemiah, and scholars disagree about its exact location.

• Tower of BabelBible

  The Tower of Babel is an event recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. After Noah's Flood, people who spoke a single language began building a city and a tower on the plain of Shinar, but God confounded their language and scattered them over all the earth.

• NimrodPeople

  Nimrod is a son of Cush and grandson of Ham who appears in Genesis 10. The Bible describes him as one who "began to be a mighty one in the earth" and as "a mighty hunter before the LORD," and it associates him with cities such as Babel and Nineveh.

• Paddan-aramBible

  Paddan-aram is a place in northern Mesopotamia that appears in Genesis as the homeland of Rebekah and Laban and as the place where Jacob lived in the household of his uncle Laban. It is commonly understood to refer to the region around Haran.

• MilcahPeople

  Milcah is a woman in the Book of Genesis, the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. She was the mother of Bethuel and the grandmother of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.

• JoktanPeople

  Joktan was a son of Eber, a descendant of Shem, and the younger brother of Peleg. He appears with his thirteen sons in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 and is commonly regarded as the ancestor of various tribes of southern Arabia.

• JaredPeople

  Jared is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. He was the son of Mahalaleel, the father of Enoch, and the grandfather of Methuselah. Scripture records that he lived 962 years.

• Ephesians 5:31–32Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul quotes the "one flesh" saying of Genesis 2:24 and compares the union of husband and wife to the relationship between Christ and the church. It is often read at wedding services. Catholic and Protestant interpreters differ over whether the "mystery" should be understood as a sacrament.