Who was Aaron's wife in the Bible?

Article. Daughter of Amminadav, sister of Nahson, Elisheba is the wife of the high priest Aaron and the mother of four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar (Exod. 6:23).
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How many wives did Aaron have?

Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon of the tribe of Judah. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Itamar; only the latter two had progeny. A descendant of Aaron is an Aaronite, or Kohen, meaning Priest.
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What did Elisheba do in the Bible?

Rabbah 20:2). The Rabbis identify Elisheba as one of the Hebrew midwives in Egypt, an identification apparently based on the end of the Biblical account. The midwives disobeyed Pharaoh's decrees and did not kill the boys, which the Torah (Ex.
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Who was Miriam's husband in the Bible?

The historian Josephus deems Hur the husband of Miriam (Antiquities 3.54; see Exod 17:10–12). Rabbinic sources give her Caleb for a husband and Hur for a son (but compare 1 Chr 2:19).
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Why were Miriam and Aaron jealous of Moses?

Jealous of the fact that Moses had been put in charge over all the Israelite people, Miriam and Aaron spoke out against him. They questioned his leadership, claiming that God had also used the two of them to speak to the Israelite people.
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Who is God's sister in the Bible?

So we know for certain that Metatron knows that Amara is God's sister and I also think Death had to have known as well. It is implied that it was just Death, Amara and God at one point, before anything else was created, so Death had to be a fool not to have known their relationship.
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How is Elizabeth related to Aaron in the Bible?

According to the Gospel of Luke chapter 1, Elizabeth was "of the daughters of Aaron". She and her husband Zechariah/Zachariah were "righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless" (1:5–7), but childless.
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What is the meaning of Elisheba?

The Hebrew name is composed of two parts; in one interpretation, "Eli" means "my God" and "sheba" means "oath". The name Eli-sheba can thus be translated as "God is (my) oath". The Hebrew Bible records that Elisheba and Aaron had four sons: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar (Exodus 6:23).
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Did Moses marry?

A grateful Jethro gives Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage, despite their religious differences. They marry and have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. A few years later, after God speaks to Moses through a burning bush, Moses sets out with his family to return to Egypt to free his people from slavery.
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What was Aaron's relationship to Moses?

In Egypt, Aaron was a faithful companion to his brother Moses. He attempted to impress Pharaoh with magical signs, such as changing his rod into a serpent and inducing many of the plagues.
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Who Is Moses second wife?

In this case, the Cushite was Moses' second wife, whether after Zipporah or simultaneously is not clear. However, Cush was also a designation for part of Midian (Albright: 205, n. 49).
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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Who is Miriam Aaron?

Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed; she was the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The narrative of Moses' infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him being placed in the Nile (Exodus 2:4); she is traditionally identified as Miriam.
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Who had multiple wives in the Bible?

Despite these nuances to the biblical perspective on polygamy, many important figures had more than one wife, such as in the instances of Esau (Gen 26:34; 28:6-9), Jacob (Gen 29:15-28), Elkanah (1 Samuel 1:1-8), David (1 Samuel 25:39-44; 2 Samuel 3:2-5; 5:13-16), and Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3).
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How many wives did Moses have and their names?

Miriam and Aaron were jealous because Moses had two wives and because more of his attention would have been taken by the newly married woman. It is not unusual in an African setting for relatives and friends to be jealous when husbands are too occupied with two or three wives.
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Where does the name Elisheba come from?

The name Elisheba is primarily a female name of Hebrew origin that means God Is Her Oath.
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What does the name amminadab mean?

1 Aminadab, which in Hebrew. means "my people are willing," appears twelve times in the Old.
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Was Elizabeth and Mary related?

Mary was Elizabeth's cousin and an heir to the English throne through her Tudor grandmother, Margaret, Henry VIII's older sister.
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What tribe was Mary the mother of Jesus from?

According to the writer of Luke, Mary was a relative of Elizabeth, wife of the priest Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah, who was herself part of the lineage of Aaron and so of the Tribe of Levi.
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Who is Gods wife?

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.
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Who are the 7 Fallen Angels?

The fallen angels are named after entities from both Christian and Pagan mythology, such as Moloch, Chemosh, Dagon, Belial, Beelzebub and Satan himself. Following the canonical Christian narrative, Satan convinces other angels to live free from the laws of God, thereupon they are cast out of heaven.
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Who is the highest angel in heaven?

Tradition places seraphim in the highest rank in Christian angelology and in the fifth rank of ten in the Jewish angelic hierarchy. A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1–8) used the term to describe six-winged beings that fly around the Throne of God crying "holy, holy, holy".
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