“Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!” American Standard VersionAnd Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it...
Genesis moves from the general to the specific in its Messianic predictions: Christ is the Seed of woman (3:15), from the line of Seth (4:25), the son of Shem (9:27), the descendent of Abraham (12:3), of Isaac (21:12), of Jacob (25:23), and of the tribe of Judah (49:...
The phrase indicates the successful completion of the servant's mission to find a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's kin, as instructed in Genesis 24:4. This journey to Abraham's relatives in Nahor (likely in the region of Haran) is significant for maintaining the purity of the covenant...
The Character: One ofDoctor Whoseason 14's many mysteriesconcerns Susan Twist's habit of appearing as different characters in separate episodes. Twist played Isaac Newton's maid in "Wild Blue Yonder," a woman requesting a song in "The Church on Ruby Road," crew member Gina Scalzi in "Spac...
The purpose of this essay is to use Luther's lectures on "The Sacrifice of Isaac" as a case study of his approach to interpreting Scripture and the way in which he dealt with and used extra-scriptural material in his exegetical work. A marker of Luther's approach in Genesis 22 is his...
Genesis 15:6 in all English translations Genesis 22:1-18 New American Bible (Revised Edition) Chapter 22 The Testing of Abraham.[a]1Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test and said to him: Abraham! “Here I am!” he replied.2Then God said: Take your son ...
Sarah, also spelled Sarai, in the Old Testament, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Sarah was childless until she was 90 years old. God promised Abraham that she would be “a mother of nations” (Genesis 17:16) and that she would conceive and bear a son, but Sarah did not believe...
[Manasseh] also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations (Genesis 48:19, speaking of Ephraim and Manasseh). His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns...
Shaye Cohen: The biblical narrative gets going withAbrahamin Genesis chapter 12. Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob, in turn Joseph and the twelve tribes, this brings us directly to the people of Israel and the covenant at Sinai. So Abraham is thought of as the first Jew, the archetype...
The Doctor and Sarah met a man named Isaac, a composer who later became The Doctor’s companion. He was stalked by two grey figures and apparently committed suicide. The Doctor tried to investigate, but was stopped by the Time Lord messenger, who informed him that he had to wait until he...