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The Midrash of Ki-Tetze [כי תצא] claims that Moses was born aposthic. Other sources [which?] that Jacob, his son Gad and King David were also born aposthic. The book Abot De-Rabbi Natan (The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan) contains a list of persons from the Israelite Scriptures that were "born circumcised": Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the wicked Balaam, Samuel, David ...
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
Inbreeding is also used to reveal deleterious recessive alleles, which can then be eliminated through assortative breeding or through culling. In plant breeding, inbred lines are used as stocks for the creation of hybrid lines to make use of the effects of heterosis. Inbreeding in plants also occurs naturally in the form of self-pollination.
[24] [25] [26] The Deuteronomic Code gives a yet more simple list of prohibited relationships – a man's parent's daughter (including his sister), a man's father's wife (including his mother), and a man's mother-in-law. [27] [28] In the Hebrew Bible, sexual relationships between siblings are forbidden to Jews but permissible to Gentiles (non ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Hieronymus Bosch, based on Genesis 6:1–4. The Nephilim (/ ˈ n ɛ f ɪ ˌ l ɪ m /; Hebrew: נְפִילִים Nəfīlīm) are mysterious beings or humans in the Bible traditionally imagined as being of great size and strength, or alternatively beings of great power and authority. [1]
Gemstones in the Bible; Genealogies in the Bible; List of major biblical figures; List of minor Old Testament figures, A–K; List of minor Old Testament figures, L–Z; List of minor New Testament figures; List of biblical places; List of animals in the Bible; List of plants in the Bible; List of women in the Bible; List of names for the ...
Benjamin Stacy, born in 1975, was the last known descendant of the Fugates to have been born exhibiting the characteristic blue color of the disorder, though he quickly lost his blue skin tone, exhibiting only blue tinges on his lips and fingertips when he became cold or agitated. [5]