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  2. Gospel of Matthew - Wikipedia

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    The Gospel of Matthew[ note 1] is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people (the Jews) but is rejected by them and how, after his resurrection, he sends the disciples to the gentiles instead. [ 3] Matthew wishes to emphasize that the Jewish ...

  3. Joseph (Genesis) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [ 2][ a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...

  4. Book of Tobit - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Tobit ( / ˈtoʊbɪt /) [ a][ b] is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites ). [ 1] It tells the story of two Israelite families, that of the blind Tobit in Nineveh and of the abandoned ...

  5. Jerusalem Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Jerusalem Bible (JB or TJB) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd. As a Catholic Bible, it includes 73 books: the 39 books shared with the Hebrew Bible, along with the seven deuterocanonical books, as the Old Testament, and the 27 books shared by all Christians as the New Testament. It also ...

  6. Book of Joseph - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Joseph is an untranslated text identified by Joseph Smith after analyzing Egyptian papyri that came into his possession in 1835. Joseph Smith taught that the text contains the writings of the ancient biblical patriarch Joseph. From the same papyri collection, Smith produced the first part of the Book of Abraham, but was killed ...

  7. Book of Sirach - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Sirach was originally written in Biblical Hebrew and was also known as the "Proverbs of ben Sira" ( משלי בן סירא, Mišlē ben Sirā) or the "Wisdom of ben Sira" ( חכמת בן סירא, Ḥokhmat ben Sirā ). The book was not accepted into the Hebrew Bible and the original Hebrew text was not preserved by the Masoretes.

  8. Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [ 1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ). Genesis is ...

  9. Chronology of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The canonical text of the Hebrew Bible is called the Masoretic Text, a text preserved by Jewish rabbis from early in the 7th and 10th centuries CE. There are, however, two other major texts, the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch. The Septuagint is a Koine Greek translation of the original Biblical Hebrew holy books.