Holy Book of Genesis

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9 questions

• QWhat was the second gift that Abraham’s chief servant offered to Rebecca besides the bracelet? Was it a pair of earrings or nose rings?
• QIn Genesis 4:4, Abel lived 14 centuries. Is this 1400 years in our modern time?
• QGenesis 11:1 says the people of the whole world had one language, spoke the same language, and used the same word or common speech, while Genesis 10:5,20,31 says that…
• QIn the Bible story of Abraham's hospitality, when the three angels—one of whom was the Lord, appeared to Abraham, and Abraham served them, did the Lord look like Jesus in…
• QWe the Coptic Church believe that the Son appeared to Abraham with two angels in human form. How is it then that the Son appears in human form before being born of the…
• QCould you tell me some biblical verses or proof of how Jesus is the one that appeared to Abraham in as angelic form and a human being?
• QHow do we know that it was the Son not the Father who visited Abraham?
• QIn Genesis 6:5-7, it says " Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil…
• QIf Adam and Eve were the first people that God created and Cain and Abel were their offspring, why does Cain say in Genesis 4, verse 14, that he was scared to go to the…

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