the Tablets of the Law (also Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lūḥōt habbǝrīt "tablets of the...
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Ten Commandments (redirect from Commandments of God (The Ten Commandments))
"commandments". The stone tablets, as opposed to the ten commandments inscribed on them, are called לוּחוֹת הַבְּרִית, lukhót habberít "tablets of the covenant"...
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the dust are redolent of the Finger of God writing the Law on tablets of stone. Act of God Belshazzar's feast The Creation of Adam Exodus 8:16–20 Exodus...
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and furnishings of the Ark, and told that it would be made of shittim wood (also known as acacia wood) to house the Tablets of Stone. Moses instructed...
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Mount Sinai (Bible) (category Book of Exodus)
he broke the first set of the tablets of stone after returning from the mountain for the first time. The biblical description of God's descent seems to...
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High Holy Days (redirect from Days of awe)
Mount Sinai before coming down with the second ("replacement") set of the Tablets of Stone. The term High Holy Days most probably derives from the popular...
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down from Mount Sinai in the form of two tablets of stone. According to the Book of Exodus, God delivered the tablets twice, the first set having been...
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legend, the souls of the dead will be gathered there for prayers. Its other name, Dome of the Tablets, comes from the Tablets of Stone, which were said...
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of stone or wood erected as a monument or marker Tabula ansata, tablets with handles Vindolanda tablets, Roman era writings found in Britain Tablet (magazine)...
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Mount Sinai (category Mountains of Egypt)
of a 16th-century church, that is not open to the public. The chapel encloses the rock which is considered to be the source for the biblical Tablets of...
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Georgia Guidestones (redirect from Georgia Stones)
heritage of the United States Stonehenge replicas and derivatives Tablets of Stone Sullivan, Randall (April 20, 2009). "American Stonehenge: Monumental...
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Mount Horeb (category Book of Deuteronomy)
that the Ark of the Covenant contained only the tablets delivered to Moses at Horeb. In 1 Kings 19:8-18, Elijah visits "Horeb the mount of God", and encounters...
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the stone tablets in anger, and commands the Levites to massacre the unfaithful Israelites. God commands Moses to construct two new tablets. Moses ascends...
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traditionally use mezuzot, but put up a small plaque in the shape of the two Tablets of the Law with the Ten Commandments. In Israel, where they might try...
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carved on stone using a sharp tool, e.g., the Tablets of Stone described in the Bible; stamped or incised in clay and then baked to make clay tablets, e.g...
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Tărtăria tablets (Romanian pronunciation: [tərtəˈri.a]) are three tablets, reportedly discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in the village of Tărtăria...
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fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately...
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Mercy seat (category Book of Exodus)
which Yahweh appeared and dwelled. This was connected with the rituals of the Day of Atonement. The term also appears in later Jewish sources, and twice...
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alchemists associated the Emerald Tablet with the creation of the philosophers' stone and the artificial production of gold. It has also been popular with...
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Yom Kippur (redirect from Feast of Atonement)
the golden calf sin, Moses descended from Mount Sinai and broke the Tablets of Stone, which contained the Ten Commandments and symbolized the covenant with...
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Second Temple (redirect from Temple of Herod)
holy articles, including the Ark of the Covenant containing the Tablets of Stone, before which were placed the pot of manna and Aaron's rod, the Urim and...
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to writing tablets in Homer was far from anachronistic. An archaeological discovery in 1979 in Durrës, Albania found two wax tablets made of ivory in a...
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month of the Hebrew calendar. According to the Mishnah, five calamities befell the Jewish people on this day: Moses broke the two tablets of stone on Mount...
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in darkness and contained the Ark of the Covenant, gilded inside and out, in which was placed the Tablets of Stone. According to both Jewish and Christian...
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on 114 stone tablets, are preserved in the Stele Forest Museum in Xi'an, China. Widely regarded as the world's heaviest books, these tablets are also...
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Early Indian epigraphy (redirect from Shankarpur copper-plate of Budhagupta)
widespread over the 1st millennium, engraved on the faces of cliffs, on pillars, on tablets of stone, drawn in caves and on rocks, some gouged into the bedrock...
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deal of auspiciousness, may my doors welcome hundreds of blessings". In Taoism, spirit tablets are often used for ancestors. Sometimes spirit tablets are...
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Biblical Sabbath (redirect from Observance of the Sabbath)
compared to "a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written ... not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts"; this interpretation states...
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to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke. ...
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Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (category Paintings of Moses)
foreground, his right hand palm up and his left hand on the Tablets of Stone. The tablets are in shadow, their contents, the Ten Commandments, are unreadable...
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