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The Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (painting by Peter Paul Rubens). Parashat Vayikra, VaYikra, Va-yikra, Wayyiqra, or Wayyiqro (וַיִּקְרָא —Hebrew for "and He called," the first word in the parashah) is the 24th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Leviticus.
Psalm 15 is the 15th psalm in the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 14.
According to the Hebrew Bible, the tabernacle ( Hebrew: מִשְׁכַּן, romanized : miškan, lit. 'residence, dwelling place'), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (Hebrew: אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, romanized: ʔōhel mōʕēḏ, also Tent of Meeting ), was the portable earthly dwelling of God used by the Israelites from the Exodus ...
Christianity portal. v. t. e. The Apocryphon of James,[1]also called the Secret Book of James[2][3]or the Apocryphal Epistle of James,[4][5]is a Gnosticepistle. [1][4]It is the second tractatein CodexI of the Nag Hammadi library. [4][5]The tractate is a Coptictranslation of a Greekoriginal,[4]probably written in Egypt,[1][4]with estimates of ...
The author is identified as “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ” (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the son of Alphaeus, and James the brother of Jesus ...
The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where it follows Isaiah and Jeremiah. [ 1] According to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, although it is the ...
Bezalel. In Exodus 31:1-6 and chapters 36 to 39, Bezalel, Bezaleel, or Betzalel ( Hebrew: בְּצַלְאֵל, Bəṣalʼēl ), was the chief artisan of the Tabernacle [ 1] and was in charge of building the Ark of the Covenant, assisted by Oholiab. The section in chapter 31 describes his selection as chief artisan, in the context of Moses ...
The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [ Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following. [ 2][ 3] It is the earliest surviving assertion of the ...