JEWISH
Scriptures derived from the Jewish Torah and Talmud.
The Tanakh (Mikra) is the Hebrew Bible that consists of the Torah (5 books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), the Nevi’m (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
Kabbalah is the mystical Jewish knowledge of trying to understand the relationship between God’s creation of the finite universe and humans, and time that is endless and forever. Kabbalah is to appreciate the nature of the universe and life and to wonder about the purpose of all existence.
The word ‘God’ has been substituted for Jehovah or Yahweh in many verses.
The Torah
2200 BCE
Book of GENESIS
In the beginning, God Jehovah created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and
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The gold was of high quality; pearls and onyx stone were there.
The second river was named Gihon; it flowed around the whole land of Cush.
The third river was named Hiddekel (the Tigris); it was the one that flowed east of Assyria. And the fourth river was the Euphrates.
And the Lord told the man in the garden to tend to it and guard and keep it, saying, You will be called Adam, and you may eat freely of every tree of the garden, but not of the tree in the center, for that is my tree.
Next the Spirit of the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, the Lord took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the part with flesh.
And the rib or a part of his side was built up into a woman, and her nostrils were also filled with the breath of life, and the Lord’s Spirit guided the woman to Adam.
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Adam and he said, This woman is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, we are united as one.
And the man and his
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She ate of the fruit of knowledge and gave some to her husband Adam and he ate also.
They soon realized they were naked and covered their bodies with fig leaves.
When the Lord saw them, the Lord knew they had eaten of the fruit of knowledge, and Adam and Eve were ashamed that they had disobeyed the Lord. The Lord told them that as a covenant from then on and forever, they would have to toil and burden to make clothing to cover their bodies, so the people should remember to obey the Lord’s commands. God said I will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; thou shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Another interpretation of the punishment for disobedience was that women would bear children in pain and men would toil by the brow for sustenance upon the earth.
Lucifer Satan dwelled in heaven for more than five hundred thousand years before God expelled him because Satan was rebellious and wanted to overthrow God; Satan would not accept the reality of the heavenly