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20 Cards in this Set
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Balaam
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Person known to be in touch with gods who is sent for to curse the Israelites
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Cities of refuge
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Places to which those who commit a homicide may go to receive a fair trail
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Deuteronomistic History
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Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings: they narrate stories of Israel's life according to the pattern Deuteronomy sets out
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Holiness Code
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Leviticus 17-26 give instructions for all Israelites on how to live a holy life
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Joshua and Caleb
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The two spies who said the Israelites could take the Promised Land
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Mount Sinai
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Where Moses received the Ten Commandments
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Passover
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Feast that celebrates God's deliverance of Israel from slavery
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Phinehas
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Priest who rushes to kill a couple of Baal worshippers, and thus stops a plague that had killed 24,000 people.
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Ritual purity
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A requirement for anyone everyone who wanted to enter the presence of God
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Shema
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"Hear O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone"
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Tabernacle
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Portable worship structure
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Ark of the Covenant
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Specially designed box that contained various religious artifacts and represented the presence of God
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Asherah
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The "sacred pole" to Baal
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Chronicler's History
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The way the book of Chronicles tells the story of the Israelite monarchies.
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Dagon
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Philistine god
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Deborah
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The only woman among the judges
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Judah
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Southern kingdom, whose capital was in Jerusulem
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Judges
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Leaders who emerged in times of crisis to bring the tribes together for fighting off common enemies
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Levirate marriage
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In this system, the closest relative of a man who dies with no children must marry the widow and have children in the name of the man who died.
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Saul
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First king of the tribes of Israel
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