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The Holy Bible: A Translation From the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals is a Catholic version of the Bible in three volumes (later published in one volume editions) translated by Monsignor Ronald Knox, the English theologian, priest and crime writer. It is more commonly known as the Knox Bible or Knox Version. [1]
The Book of Genesis – 1948: this was a unique translation, the only one that was revised for the 1970 NAB; The Book of Psalms – 1950 and 1955, reprinted 1959; The Octateuch: Genesis to Ruth – 1952 (published as Volume One) The Sapiential Books (Job to Sirach) – 1955 (published as Volume Three — with Volume Two left to be filled in later)
Genesis 1:1–2:3 In the beginning (prologue) Genesis 2:4–4:26 Toledot of Heaven and Earth (narrative) Genesis 5:1–6:8 Toledot of Adam (genealogy, see Generations of Adam) Genesis 6:9–9:29 Toledot of Noah (Genesis flood narrative) Genesis 10:1–11:9 Toledot of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth (genealogy) Genesis 11:10–26 Toledot of ...
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר (yehi 'or) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase γενηθήτω φῶς (genēthḗtō phôs) and the Latin phrases fiat lux and lux sit.
"Adam and Eve" by Ephraim Moshe Lilien, 1923. In Judaism, Christianity, and some other Abrahamic religions, the commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" (referred to as the "creation mandate" in some denominations of Christianity) is the divine injunction which forms part of Genesis 1:28, in which God, after having created the world and all in it, ascribes to humankind the tasks of filling ...
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Tohuw is frequently used in the Book of Isaiah in the sense of "vanity", but bohuw occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis 1:2, the passage in Isaiah 34:11 mentioned above, [5] and in Jeremiah 4:23, which is a reference to Genesis 1:2), its use alongside tohu being mere paronomasia, and is given the equivalent translation of ...