9th Bible Vocab
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- revelation
- - noun; a sudden new understanding of something you didn’t get before; had a revelation that God is the only God
- Patriarch
- - noun; male head of a family of a group; founder; Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, Moses etc.
- Proverb
- - noun; piece of advice, or timeless truth, requires interpretation;
- Theology
- -noun; study of God and relationship to the Universe, study of Gods
- Torah
- - noun; first five books of the Bible;
- Altruism
- - noun; the practice of pure unselflessness; without calculation of reward
- Atonement
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- noun; doing something to make up for what you have done
- Moses offers himself when the Israelites are sinful on Mt Sinai - Canaan
- - noun; land that was promised to Moses’ descendents, land the Israelis
- Concordance
- - noun; a list of all the terms, places, and concepts in alphabetical order
- Covenant
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- noun; an agreement between two parties mutually;
-respect God if I give you a promise land; both parties keep up with their end - Compilation
- - noun; collections of works by different people;
- Exodus
- - noun; mass departure of people; Jews from Egypt; second book
- Genealogy
- - noun; a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor
- Genre
- - noun; a category or type of literature; plays, poetry;
- “I AMâ€
- - God’s name; not a proper name; verb/action
- intercession
- -noun; the action of intervening on behalf of another; Moses intercedes between God and the corrupt Israelites
- Jordan River
- -noun; Joshua crossed this river; entrance to the promise land; marks the end of their wandering and punishment
- Nomad
- - noun; wanderers; no set place where they live; part of discovering god to their home
- Mount Sinai
- - noun; where the Moses talks to God and receives the Commandments
- Red Sea
- - noun; sea that Moses parted to let the Israelites to get away from the Egypt