Bible Scriptures

The Seven laws of Noah (Hebrew:שבע מצוות בני נח) are 7 moral laws for the non Jews.

Unlike the 10 commandments, the laws are all prohibitions. However, these laws point out what the good and true path should be. Every person on the face of the earth can use these laws as the basis of his spiritual, moral and pragmatic life.

The Book of Judith (Hebrew: ספר יהודית) is apocryphal text which never made it into the Hebrew Biblical canon. The term Apocrypha means "things hidden away". The book was first found in the Septuagint .

Judith herself is not mentioned in the Old Testament. It is believed that the Book was originally written in Greek. The book begins with a date: "the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar".

"וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ, אֶת-הָאֱלֹהִים; וְאֵינֶנּוּ, כִּי-לָקַח אֹתוֹ אֱלֹהִים."

"And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him."

Genesis 5:24

According to Genesis 5 , Enoch was the great grandfather of Noah. Enoch is one of the two people in the Bible taken up to heaven without dying.

One of the most famous and inserting Scroll, discovered in Qumran in 1947, is the "War Scroll".

In 1947 , an amazing collection of over 970 texts from the Hebrew Bible and Biblical documents found on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.

The first seven Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח ) , also known as Qumran Scrolls, were found by Bedouin of the Ta'amra tribe in the near Khirbet Qumran.

The Book of Splendour (Hebrew: ספר הזוהר),  is the greatest classic of Jewish mysticism. It is the central work in the literature of the Kabbalah.

What Does It Contain?

The Septuagint contains the standard 39 books of the Old Testament canon, as well as certain apocryphal books. Apocrypha refers to ancient Jewish writings written during the period between the last book in the Jewish scriptures, Malachi and the arrival of Jesus Christ.

There are many translations of the Hebrew Bible but the Septuagint is the main and most reliable one.

The Septuagint (Hebrew: תרגום השבעים ) , also known as "LXX", is an Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Septuagint means seventy in Latin, and the text is so named to the credit of these 70 scholars.

The Book of Hosea (Hebrew:הוֹשֵׁעַ) is  a book of the Old Testamant . It's the first book in the order of the twelve Minor Prophets.

The Books of Chronicles (Hebrew :דברי הימים ) are part of the Old Testament.  In the Masoretic Text, it appears as the last book of the Ketuvim. In Christian Bibles Chronicles follows II Kings and precedes Ezra.