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Early Israelites
Most of the Israelites were nomads. Find out where and how they traveled in the Ancient Near East. Before they settled in Canaan, the earliest ancestors of the Israelites were nomads, which means that they lived by moving herds of sheep and goats from place to place to find good pastures. For example, the Bible tells us how Abraham moved…
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Early Travel
In the beginning . . . human societies interacted with each other. See how they did it.No clear evidence has been found to show how the earliest human beings traveled. Archaeologists date the earliest evidence of any kind of travel from the end of the “Ice Age,” about 40,000 years ago. Evidence suggests that some kind of trading occurred in…
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Making Promises (Vows)
Scripture is full of promises that people make to God and that God makes to people. Find out what some of these promises are and how they apply to our everyday lives. Vows are spoken promises made to God, and are often made in response to help received from God. A person making a vow can offer a thing, an…
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Blood
In the ancient world, blood was a symbol of life and sacrifice. Consequently, it played an important role in the Old Testament sacrificial system. In the Bible, the power of life is understood to be present in blood. This is true of animals (Gen 9.4) and of humans (Lev 17.11). No one was to eat meat that still had the…
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Acts of Mercy
Justice, generosity, kindness. All of these ideas are involved in the biblical understanding of mercy. In the Bible, God's people are encouraged to respond to God's blessings by helping others and giving generously to the poor. The giving of gifts (alms) to the needy is strongly encouraged, and those who do so are promised a full life (Prov 14:21,31; Isa…
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Redeemer (Redemption)
The word “redeemer” appeared in the Old Testament, but the idea carried over into the New Testament. Learn more about the background of this idea. In the Old Testament, a redeemer ( goel in Hebrew) was a person who bought back property or a house that had been sold in order to keep it in the family inheritance. Also, one…
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