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5500 BCE
creation story and and eve
When Eve is tempted by the serpent and eats the forbidden fruit, Father makes Adam choose between Him and Eden, or Eve. Adam chooses Eve and eats the fruit, causing Father to banish them into the wilderness and destroy the Tree of Knowledge, from which Adam carves a staff. -
1600 BCE
The Twelve Sons of Jacob, Joseph's Rise to Power
The offspring of Jacob's sons became the tribes of Israel following the Exodus when the Israelites conquered and settled in the Land of Israel. -
1570 BCE
The Ten Plagues
The plagues are water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the killing of firstborn children. -
1410 BCE
The Battle of Jericho
The Battle of Jericho, as described in the Biblical Book of Joshua, was the first battle fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. -
1400 BCE
The Crossing of the Red Sea
When the Israelites reached the Red Sea Moses stretched out his hand and the waters divided, allowing his follower's safe passage. The Egyptians followed them but God again commanded Moses to stretch out his hand and the sea engulfed the army. This story is recounted in the Old Testament -
1305 BCE
Esther and the King
Esther and the King is a 1960 American-Italian religious epic film produced and directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Joan Collins as Esther, Richard Egan as Ahasuerus, and Denis O'Dea as Mordecai. Walsh and Michael Elkins wrote the screenplay, which was based on the Book of Esther of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It recounts the origin of the Jewish celebration of Purim. -
1300 BCE
noah's ark
The structure of the Ark (and the chronology of the flood) is homologous with the Jewish Temple and with Temple worship. Accordingly, Noah's instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high -
1200 BCE
Tower of Babel
According to Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built to reach the heavens by united humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity, resolves to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts. -
1200 BCE
Samson the Judge
Samson, Hebrew Shimshon, legendary Israelite warrior, and judge, or divinely inspired leader, renowned for the prodigious strength that he derived from his uncut hair. He is portrayed in the biblical Book of Judges -
70 BCE
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis.