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There are three tales of a wife confused with a sister within the Torah, all of which are strikingly similar. At the core of each is the tale of a Biblical Patriarch, who has come to be in the land of a powerful foreign overlord that has mistaken the Patriarch's wife to be the Patriarch's sister, and consequently has attempted to wed her himself, though later finds out his error. Two of the three stories are similar in many other details, including the antagonist's name - Abimelech - although this could be construed as being a royal t ...

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• A wife confused for a sister - Abram and Pharaoh
• A wife confused for a sister - Abraham and Abimelech
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• A wife confused for a sister - Parallels between the stories
• A wife confused for a sister - Biblical criticism
• A wife confused for a sister - Classical Jewish commentators
• A wife confused for a sister - The wife and the sister
• A wife confused for a sister - Origin

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In the Tanakh, nearly all incidental Biblical references to incest occur in the Torah, especially in Genesis (Bereishit), prior to the establishment of Jewish law as described in Leviticus. A few books contain narratives describing the circumstances of particular instances of sexual intercourse among family members, which may be construed as incest and/or endogamy. Jewish law does not explicitly forbid cousins from marrying, but it does prohibit sexual relations with in-laws, aunts but not uncles (Lev 18: 6 ...

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• Biblical references to incest - Torah
• Biblical references to incest - Genesis
• Biblical references to incest - Exodus
• Biblical references to incest - Numbers
• Biblical references to incest - Nevi'im
• Biblical references to incest - 2 Samuel
• Biblical references to incest - Notes

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The Sons of Ever or Bnei Eyver (בני-עבר) a synonym for the earliest cultural Hebrews, are first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 10:21. In orthodox circles the term is understood to refer to the wider family of Hebrew (commonly identified as Habiru) peoples from whom Abraham came. Each of the names of the children in question is understood to stand for the different Hebrew nations. In Protestant & Reform circles Hebrews are defined as descending from Abraham and the identification of the Bnei Eyver of Genesis 10:21 remains obscure except for the eighth generation around whose de ...

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Ishmael or Yishma'el (יִשְׁמָעֵאל "God hears or obeys", Standard Hebrew Yišmaʿel, Tiberian Hebrew Yišmāʿêl), Arabic إسماعيل, is Abraham's eldest son, born by his servant Hagar. Ishmael the son of Abraham, is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis as the eldest son of Abraham by Hagar, Sarah's female Egyptian maid-servant or slave. In Islam and the Qur'an, Ishmael is considered one of the prophets. Ishmael - Ishmael in the Hebre ...

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The Khaldis was a conglomeration of at least 79 different gods known to the Urartians and Hurrians. The inscription of Argistis near Lake Van states: This is the spoil of the cities which I obtained for the people of the Khaldis its one year... To Khaldis, the giver, to the Khaldises. The supreme givers, the children of Khaldis the mighty..... From this we can derive that the Pantheon — the Khaldis — may also refer to a sphere of religion or cultural influence of a particula ...

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List of Biblical names - People. Zaanannim, movings; a person asleep Zaavan, trembling Zabad, dowry; endowed Zabbai, flowing Zabbud Zabdi, same as Zabad Zabdiel Zabud Zaccai, pure meat; just Zacheus, pure; clean; just Zaccur, of the male kind; mindful Zachariah, memory of the Lord Zadok, just; justified Zaham, crime; filthiness; impurity Zair, little; afflicted; in tribulation < ...

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List of Hebrew names - א Álef. אָב Av, ʼĀḇ, Ab. Month name, also "father". Akkadian loan: abu. אֲבִיגַיִל Avigáyil, ʼĂḇîḡáyil, Abigail, Aviga'il. "Leader of dance/joy." Feminine. אֲבִימֶלֶךְ Aviméleḫ, ʼĂḇîméleḵ, Abimelech, Avimelech. "Father/Leader of king." Masculine.See also:

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Noach parsha - Noah and the great flood. In response to the wickedness of mankind, God decided to cleanse the world and start again. God selected one man's family, the family of Noah, to survive the flood, as Noah was the most righteous man of his generation. God commanded Noah to build a large ark, as the work of destruction was to be accomplished by a great flood. Noah obeyed the command, entering the ark together with his family. Into this ark they brought a mating pair of each kind of animal and bird o ...

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Noach parsha, Noach parsha - Summary, Noach parsha - Noah and the great flood, Noach parsha - The Tower of Babel, Noach parsha - The line of Terah, Noach parsha - Commandments, Noach parsha - Haftarah

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A wife confused for a sister - Abram and Pharaoh. The first of the stories is found at Genesis 12:10-20, and is the briefest of the three. The story begins by describing Abram migrating to Egypt in order to evade a famine. Noticing how beautiful his wife, Sarai, is, Abram worries that the Egyptians will kill him so that they can marry his wife instead, and so asks her to pretend she is his sister. On arriving before the Pharaoh, the Egyptians recognise Sarai's beauty, and the Egyptian princes shower Abram with gi ...

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Many of the tribes living in the Middle East, between the time of Abraham and the time of Christ, have a genealogical connection to the Patriarchs or their descendants. This list, taken from the book of Genesis, gives the details of that genealogy. Noah, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth Ham, father of Canaan (Canaanites) Canaan, father of Sidon, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashities, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites Shem, ancestor of ...

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Patriarchs Bible, Patriarchs Bible - Other uses, Patriarchs Bible - Relation to other tribes

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Lech-Lecha - Abram and Sarai. God directed Abram to leave his home. Abram obeyed, emigrating with his entire household and Lot, his brother's son, to the land of Canaan. There, God appeared to Abram and promised that the land would become the property of his descendants. A famine forced Abram to leave the country and go to Egypt. The King of Egypt took possession of the beautiful Sarai (whom Abram represented as his sister; she was in fact his half-sister). God smote the King with a disease, which the King ...

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Lech-Lecha, Lech-Lecha - Summary, Lech-Lecha - Abram and Sarai, Lech-Lecha - Abram and Melchizedek, Lech-Lecha - Hagar and Ishmael, Lech-Lecha - Midrash, Lech-Lecha - Commandments, Lech-Lecha - Haftarah

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Biblical references to incest - Genesis. Milcah, sister of Lot, married her uncle, Nahor: "Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah." (Gen 11:29; New International Version) While Lot and his two daughters are living in a mountain cave, the girls conspire to get Lot drunk so that he will impregnate them and thus preserve the family line. The plan succeeds, and the elder daughter later g ...

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Biblical references to incest, Biblical references to incest - Torah, Biblical references to incest - Genesis, Biblical references to incest - Exodus, Biblical references to incest - Numbers, Biblical references to incest - Nevi'im, Biblical references to incest - 2 Samuel, Biblical references to incest - Notes

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A wife confused for a sister - Biblical criticism. The parallels are familiar to all readers of Genesis and are treated by the Jewish Encyclopedia's article "Sarah" as "Repetitions in the narrative", noting that "the story of Sarah's life, brief and incomplete as it is, presents nevertheless curious repetitions, e.g., the incident with Pharaoh and a similar incident with Abimelech (Gen. xii. 10 et seq. and xx. 1 et seq.) ... "From the point of view of the hist ...

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In the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), Ishmael's life is described in the Book of Genesis (xvi, xvii, xxi, xxv) and later texts. In Genesis 16 Sarai (Abram's wife) gives him her maid-servant Hagar to bear him children, since she believed that God had kept her from having children (16:2). Hagar became pregnant and despised Sarai (Genesis 16:4) who then expelled Hagar from the home of Abraham in retaliation. Hagar fled from Sarai and ran into the desert, where an angel found her near a spring. Here the prophecy of Ishmael is record ...

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Ishmael, Ishmael - Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, Ishmael - Sons of Ishmael, Ishmael - Ishmael in Islam

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In the Qur'an, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham from his second wife Hagar, and an appointed Prophet of God. Islamic belief holds that Abraham married Hagar, the mother of Ishmael. As a result, Ishmael was the first legitimate son of Abraham. Islam asserts that he was the one nearly sacrificed, not Isaac, (or Ishaq in the Qur'an). Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God is cele ...

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In the New Testament, King David is referred to as a patriarch, as are Jacob's twelve sons (the ancestors of the Twelve tribes of Israel). In addition, the title patriarch is often applied to the ten antediluvian figures Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. According to the Book of Genesis, these ten men are the ancestors of the entire human race. ...

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Patriarchs Bible, Patriarchs Bible - Other uses, Patriarchs Bible - Relation to other tribes

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A wife confused for a sister - Abram and Pharaoh. The first of the stories is found at Genesis 12:10-20, and is the briefest of the three. The story begins by describing Abram migrating to Egypt in order to evade a famine. Noticing how beautiful his wife, Sarai, is, Abram worries that the Egyptians will kill him so that they can marry his wife instead, and so asks her to pretend she is his sister. On arriving before the Pharaoh, the Egyptians recognise Sarai's beauty, and the Egyptian princes shower Abram with gi ...

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A wife confused for a sister, A wife confused for a sister - The stories, A wife confused for a sister - Abram and Pharaoh, A wife confused for a sister - Abraham and Abimelech, A wife confused for a sister - Isaac and Abimelech, A wife confused for a sister - Parallels between the stories, A wife confused for a sister - Biblical criticism, A wife confused for a sister - Classical Jewish commentators, A wife confused for a sister - The wife and the sister, A wife confused for a sister - Origin

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In the midrash, Abimelech's treatment of Abraham is viewed as an act by one of the few pious non-Israelites. His attempted marriage to Sarah is explained by his being childless and thus hoping for offspring by Sarah, and was thus acting from the best of intentions. Under the documentary hypothesis, the positioning of the story by the Elohist is sometimes interpreted as a slur upon Isaac, since Isaac is born almost immediately after this event, and although no sexual relationship between Sarah and Abimelech is present in the text, the implication i ...

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This list includes any Hebrew name that is known to be used as a personal name in any cultural or religious tradition. This includes but is not limited to all existing traditions used by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. If the gender of the name is not listed, it is of (as yet) undetermined gender. List of Hebrew names - Format. For linguistic consistency, as long as a name has an attestable or logical Hebrew form, then Hebrew form in Hebrew alphabetical order is preferred in all cases, even if none of the peop ...

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Biblical references to incest - 2 Samuel. In 2 Samuel 13, Amnon, King David's eldest son and heir to the throne, rapes his beautiful half-sister Tamar. Tamar's brother, Absalom, learns of the incident, and offers Tamar sanctuary in his house. Two years later, Absalom orders his servants to murder his half-brother Amnon. ...

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Biblical references to incest, Biblical references to incest - Torah, Biblical references to incest - Genesis, Biblical references to incest - Exodus, Biblical references to incest - Numbers, Biblical references to incest - Nevi'im, Biblical references to incest - 2 Samuel, Biblical references to incest - Notes

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