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Leah and Rachel were sisters; a wife's sister is also forbidden. Jacob's firstborn son Reuben had sex with his father's concubine Bilhah. [10] Judah, Jacob's fourth son, mistook his daughter-in-law Tamar for a prostitute while she was veiled, and had sex with her. [11] Amram married his paternal aunt Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and ...
The three wife-sister narratives are all related to each other in some way, according to George Coats, sharing common content, structure and genre for communicating the content. In all three stories a promise for progeny is not a factor in the content and the structure rather the narratives have a focus on blessing.
There are some events in scripture where brothers or sisters of Jesus are not shown, e.g., when Jesus was lost in the Temple and during his crucifixion. Luke 2:41–51 reports the visit of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem when Jesus was 12 years old but does not mention any siblings.
Berenice – sister of King Agrippa Acts 25:13; Acts 25:23 and Acts 26:30; Bilhah – Rachel's handmaid and a concubine of Jacob who bears him two sons, Dan and Naphtali. Genesis [33] Bithiah – Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus). Also identified with/as Asiya in Muslim interpretations. Wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah. 1 Chronicles 4 [34]
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Tintoretto, 1570s. Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, in art usually called Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, and other variant names, is a Biblical episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament which appears only in Luke's Gospel (Luke 10:38–42), immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). [1]
The two sisters are contrasted: Martha was "encumbered about many things" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen "the better part", that of listening to the master's discourse. [3] The name of their village is not recorded, nor (unlike in John 11:18) is there any mention of whether Jesus was near Jerusalem.
The Daughters of Zelophehad (illustration from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons). The Daughters of Zelophehad (Hebrew: בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד, romanized: Bənōṯ Ṣəlāfəḥāḏ) were five sisters – Mahlah (Hebrew: מַחְלָה Maḥlā), Noa (נֹעָה Nōʿā), Hoglah (חָגְלָה Ḥoglā), Milcah (מִלְכָּה Mīlkā), and ...
On the General Roman Calendar, Lazarus is celebrated, together with his sister Mary of Bethany and their sister Martha, on a memorial on 29 July. [62] [63] Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology placed him among the saints of 17 December. [64] In Cuba, the celebration of San Lázaro on 17 December is a major festival.