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God created earth and heaven. God said "Let there be light" and there was light. took him seven days to create the whole world. -
adam and eve were created by God as the first humans. But failed to live up to God's command. So this became the fall for sin. -
By asking him to sacrifice Isaac, God was testing Abraham to see if he trusted Him. And he did: Abraham's faith in God was so great that he was willing to give Him his only son, trusting that God could bring him back from the dead. -
Noah was told to build an ark by God. God's instructions he took into the ark male and female specimens of all the world's species of animals, from which the stocks might be replenished. -
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. -
The plagues are water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the killing of firstborn children. -
the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, and then blew their trumpets. -
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. -
the first part of the Christian Bible, comprising thirty-nine books and corresponding approximately to the Hebrew Bible. -
There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, 'I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up. -
In any case, the ladder symbolizes “stepping up” into heaven through means provided by God and administered by His servants (angels).