Collection
The Patriarchs & the Flood
Genesis after Eden: Noah and the flood, Babel, Sodom, and the patriarchs.
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two by two (idiom)
In pairs, one alongside another.
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Tower of Babel (idiom)
A grand, over-ambitious project that collapses into confusion and a breakdown in communication.
- 03
Sodom and Gomorrah (idiom)
A place or scene of extreme wickedness, vice, and moral ruin.
- 04
a pillar of salt (idiom)
The fate of someone who cannot stop looking back at the past instead of moving forward.
- 05
Jacob's ladder (idiom)
A link between the earthly and the heavenly, or by extension a long, steep climb.
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a coat of many colors (idiom)
A conspicuous mark of favouritism that stirs up envy in others.
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old as Methuselah (idiom)
Extremely old; ancient.
- 08
forty days and forty nights (idiom)
A long, unbroken period of trial, hardship, or waiting.