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• Mount Sinai

  [Bible]

  Mount Sinai is the mountain where Moses received God's call and where Israel received the Ten Commandments and the law and entered into covenant with God. Scripture also calls it Mount Horeb.

• Genesis 2:7

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 2:7 states that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that man became a living being. It is frequently cited in discussions of the creation of humanity, the relationship between body and soul, and the source of life.

• Gethsemane

  [Bible]

  Gethsemane was a place at the foot of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. It is where Jesus Christ prayed and was arrested on the night before his crucifixion. Its name is generally understood to mean "oil press."

• Mark 7:18–19

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Jesus explains to his disciples that food entering a person from outside cannot defile that person. Its closing clause, often rendered "declaring all foods clean," is frequently debated because translations and interpretations differ over whether it abolishes the Old Testament food laws.

• Gilead

  [Bible]

  Gilead is an Old Testament place name for the highland region east of the Jordan River. It was known for livestock raising and spices, and Scripture names it as the home of the judge Jephthah and the prophet Elijah.

• Lydda

  [Bible]

  Lydda is the town where Peter healed Aeneas, a man sick of the palsy, in Acts 9. It lay near Joppa, is generally identified with Lod of the Old Testament, and corresponds to the modern city of Lod in Israel.

• Simony

  [History]

  Simony is the buying or selling of spiritual things, such as church offices or sacraments, for money or material goods. The term derives from Simon the sorcerer in the Acts of the Apostles.

• Rephidim

  [Bible]

  Rephidim was a wilderness encampment where the Israelites stopped after the Exodus, just before reaching the wilderness of Sinai. It was the site of the water from the rock and of the battle with Amalek.

• Pisgah

  [Bible]

  Pisgah was a mountain or ridge in the land of Moab, east of the Jordan River and opposite Jericho. From its summit Moses viewed the Promised Land of Canaan before his death.

• Ramah

  [Bible]

  Ramah is a Hebrew place name meaning "high place." In the Bible it most often refers to a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem. It became widely known through Matthew 2:18, which quotes the "voice ... heard in Ramah" of Jeremiah 31:15.

• Augustus

  [People]

  Augustus (Octavian) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire. In Luke 2 he appears as the emperor who decreed a census of the whole world, which led Joseph and Mary to travel to Bethlehem.

• Assos

  [Bible]

  Assos was a port city on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor. In Acts 20 it is the place where Paul, having walked from Troas, rejoined his companions and boarded ship.

• Massah and Meribah

  [Bible]

  Massah and Meribah are the names given to places in the wilderness where, after the Exodus, the people of Israel quarreled with Moses over the lack of water and tested God. Massah means "testing," and Meribah means "quarreling."

• Ai (Place)

  [Bible]

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. In the book of Joshua, it is the place where Israel was defeated in its first attack after the fall of Jericho and which it captured in a second attack.

• Rehoboth

  [Bible]

  Rehoboth is the name of a well that Isaac dug without strife after leaving the Valley of Gerar, as recorded in Genesis 26. The Hebrew name means "broad place," and Isaac gave it this name as a confession that God had made room for them.

• Perga

  [Bible]

  Perga was a city in the region of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts it appears as the place where Mark left Paul's company during the first missionary journey and as a city where Paul and his companions preached the word on their return.

• Exodus 28

  [Bible]

  Exodus 28 records the command to set apart Aaron and his sons as priests. It specifies the materials and construction of the holy garments the priests are to wear: the ephod, the breastplate of judgment, the robe, the gold plate, the coat, and the linen breeches.

• Deuteronomy 34

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 34 is the final chapter of Deuteronomy. In it Moses views the Promised Land from Mount Nebo, dies in the land of Moab at the age of 120, and is succeeded by Joshua.

• Psalm 40

  [Bible]

  Psalm 40 is a seventeen-verse psalm whose superscription attributes it to David. It opens with thanksgiving to God for rescue from the miry clay, confesses that obedience matters more than sacrifice, and closes with a plea for help in the face of trouble and enemies.

• Peace

  [Bible]

  Peace is a biblical term translating the Hebrew shalom and the Greek eirene. Beyond the absence of conflict, it denotes wholeness, well-being, and a right relationship between God and humanity.