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  2. Sin offering - Wikipedia

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    The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual ...

  3. Lot's daughters - Wikipedia

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    The basis of this idea is the comment of the elder daughter that "there is not a man in the earth" to give them children. [11] However, commentators such as John Calvin have pointed out that the family had only recently dwelt in Zoar, so they must have known they were not the only people left alive. Calvin therefore concludes that the elder ...

  4. Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia

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    In addition, it is argued the word used in the King James Version of the Bible for "strange", can mean unlawful or corrupted (e.g. in Romans 7:3, Galatians 1:6), and that the apocryphal Second Book of Enoch condemns "sodomitic" sex (2 Enoch 10:3; 34:1), [98] thus indicating that homosexual relations was the prevalent physical sin of Sodom.

  5. Burnt offering (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    A korban olah was also made as a sin offering on the appointment of a priest, [32] on the termination of a Nazirite's vow, [33] after recovery from tzaraath, [34] by a woman after childbirth, after recovery from a state of abnormal bodily discharges, [35] a gentile's conversion to Judaism, or as a voluntary sacrifice, when the sacrificial ...

  6. Abomination of desolation - Wikipedia

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    Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BCE) "Abomination of desolation" [a] is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made.

  7. Priestly covenant - Wikipedia

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    While the golden calf sin (Exodus 32) is recorded later than the selection of Aaron (Exodus 28), according to Rashi these chapters are out of chronological order. [ 34 ] According to Nachmanides and other Torah commentators, the decision to appoint Aaron and his sons to priestly duty was a unilateral act of God, without agreement being asked of ...

  8. Lot (biblical person) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, Lot was born to Haran, who died in Ur of the Chaldees. Terah, Lot's grandfather, took Abram (later called Abraham), Lot, and Sarai (later called Sarah) to go into Canaan. They settled at the site called Haran, where Terah died. [3]

  9. Hannah (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    The narrative about Hannah can be found in 1 Samuel 1:2–2:21.Outside of the first two chapters of 1 Samuel, she is not otherwise mentioned in the Bible. In the biblical narrative, Hannah is one of two wives of Elkanah.