my first bible
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Mercè Segarra Armelle Modéré
BibleBibleMy firstMy first
Written for early readers, My first Bible includes 47 classic Bible stories,rewritten in a languagechildren can understand.Children are introduced to timeless stories andbasic biblical concepts.
Written for early readers, My first Bible includes 47 classic Bible stories,rewritten in a languagechildren can understand.Children are introduced to timeless stories andbasic biblical concepts.
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God created the world step by step.The first step was to create light in daytime and darkness at night.Secondly, He created the sky, the seas, the mountains, the treesand the flowers.
Thirdly, He createdthe sun, the moonand the stars.Fourthly, he createdthe animals. And in the fifth and final step, He created men to love the Earth.
Creation
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The first man and the first womanthat God created were called Adam and Eve and they lived in a marvelous place: The Garden of Eden.God told them they could eat the fruit from any tree, except one that looked like an apple tree.
But an evil serpent convinced themto eat it. When God discovered thatthey had tasted the forbidden fruit,he became angry and banishedthem from the garden.Adam and Eve
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Build
ingthe Arc
The Earth became ever morepopulated. Many people werenot good and they forgotabout God, except for Noah.
God asked him to build a large boat, an arc,because he was going to flood the Earth andNoah and his family could save themselves.
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God asked Noah to board onto the arc a pair of each animal specieson the Earth and also himself and his family.
Then it rained for forty days and forty nights andeverything was flooded. But Noah, his family and the animals were safe, because they were in the arc. When it finally stoppedraining, they left the arc.And as a promise that he would never harm the Earth again, God made a rainbow.
Flood
ing the Earth
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Abraham and Sarah were a marriedchildless couple of advanced age.One day, God told Abraham to goand live in another place, which He would indicate to him.
Abraham obeyed and together with his wife, took the sheep and goats and they began the journey to an unknown destination.
Abraham and Sarah
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IsaacOne night, Abraham heard God tell him:“This is the Earth, which I give to you and your children”.“But I have no children,” replied Abraham sadly. “And I can’t have any now. I’m too old.”“Look at the sky, Abraham. Can you see the stars?”Abraham nodded.“And can you count them?” God asked him.“No. Nobody can,” replied Abraham.
Then God said to him:“Listen to me carefully, Abraham. You will have a son and you’ll have grandchildren.”God kept his promise. One year later, Sarah had a son called Isaac.
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Isaac and Rebecca had two twinsons, called Esau and Jacob, who were very different from oneanother. When Jacob grew up, he decided to live in his uncle’shouse very far away.
On the way, one night he slept resting his head upona stone and he had a dream: He saw a long ladderthat reached up to the heavens and angels going upand down. God was at the top and He said to him:“Jacob, I will never abandon you. And also, I will giveyou a lot of children and land.” From that dayonwards, Jacob was never afraid again.
Esau
and Jacob
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Jacob had twelve sons. One wascalled Joseph and Jacob loved himvery much, he gave him a verybeautiful tunic.
His brothers were jealous of him. So, one day, while the flocks weregrazing, they robbed him of his tunicand sold him to some merchantswho took him far away, to Egypt.
Joseph
Joseph in Egypt
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One day, the King of Egypt summoned him, becausehe wanted to know the meaning of two dreams he has had. They meant that Egypt would have sevenyears in a row of good harvests, followed by sevenyears of poverty and famine. Joseph advised him to store up the food during the seven years ofabundance to feed the people when the years of poverty arrived.
While Joseph was in Egypt, Godprotected him. Also, he gave himthe ability to interpret themeaning of dreams.
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Josephs’ broth
ers
Joseph saw them and without revealing to them whohe was, he asked them to go and get their youngerbrother. When they were all together, he told themwho he was and forgave them for what they had done to him in the past. In the end, they all went back to Egypt together.
When the period of famine arrived,Jacob, who was responsible forselling the wheat, sent all his childrento buy food in Egypt, apart fromBenjamin, the youngest.
This Pharaoh was afraid, because many Israelites had come to Egypt insearch of food and many of them werepowerful. To stop them from rebellingagainst him, he decided to enslavethem and also ordered for all theIsraelite male children to be thrown into the river.
After several years, there wasanother Pharaoh in Egypt whohadn’t met Joseph.
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Israe
lites in Egypt
The basket floated away until it got stuck in some reeds. The Pharaoh’s daughterfound it and decided to keep the child and bring him up as if he were her son. She named him Moses, which means“drawn from the water”.
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An Israelite mother had a son and she didn’t wantto throw him into the river.So she made a strawbasket, placed her soninside and put it in the river.
Moses
When he arrived, he saw a burning brambleand went closer. Suddenly, he heard Godsay to him:“Go back to Egypt and ask the Pharaoh tofree the Israelites.”Moses obeyed, but the Pharaoh didn’t wantto free them.
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Bramble in flames
When Moses grew up, hediscovered that he was an Israeliteand not an Egyptian. When he sawhow his people lived, he decided to escape from the palace and go to the desert.
Leaving Egypt
As the Pharaoh didn’t want to free the Israelites, God decided to punish the Egyptians by sendingthem plagues. When the Pharaohsaw this, he was frightened and letthe Israelites leave. Then Mosesguided his people to the PromisedLand or the Land of Canaan. This departure from Egypt is known as the Exodus.
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But God sent a very strong wind to help themand the next day, they found a path between two walls of water. So, they were able to crossthe sea and reach the desert.
When the Israelites left Egypt, the Pharaoh’s army followed them.When they reached the Red Sea, the Israelites didn’t know how theywere going to cross it.
Walking on water
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Moses asked for God’s help and hepromised them that bread would fallfrom the sky like rain. And so it was: It rained bread called manna, whichtasted like wafers made with honey.
God
gave
bread
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Although the Egyptians had fled,the Israelites wandered throughthe desert exhausted from thirstand hunger.
The Ten Commandmen
ts
God called Moses and he gavehim two stone tablets with the lawsthe people of Israel should follow.These laws were called the TenCommandments.
The Israelites reached Mount Sinai.One day it was covered with mist andthere was a great storm.
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The
Arc
While they traveled through thedesert, the Israelite soldiers watchedover it and when they stopped, theyplaced it in a tent decorated withtapestries. For them, it was like a temple, where they prayed andworshipped God.
God ordered his people to build an arc, a kind of chest to hold thetablets and the Commandments.
The horns of Jericho
After many years, Moses died and God choseJoshua as Israel’s new guide. His mission was to lead his people to Canaan.The first city they reached was Jericho. Theywere unable to enter, because it was surroundedby very high walls. Then God told Joshua to walkaround the city blowing horns. They did so forsix days and on the seventh, the walls fell downand they were able to enter the city.
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The last of these guides was Samuel, who ruled for many years. When he grewold, he chose his children to govern, but thepeople were tired and asked him to choosea king for the people.
The Israelites conquered those lands, butthey were not always good. God gave Israelsome guides (the judges and prophets), whohelped the Israelites to follow the good path.
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Samuel
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Samuel chose Saul as the firstking of Israel. Saul was verystrong and defeated manyenemies.
But the people stole things,kept them and didn’t sharethem with anybody. Godwas not pleased with thisand he asked Samuel to choose another king.
Saul
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David and Goliath
Samuel chose the young shepherd David as thenew king. David was very brave and he foughtGoliath, who was a giant from the enemy army, feared by everybody.
David beat the giant and was a good king. He made Jerusalem thecapital of his kingdomand God helped him.
When David died, his son Salomonbecame the new king of Israel. He asked God for wisdom,because he wanted to rule well.
As he was not asking for material goods, God was pleased and gave him many riches.To thank him, Solomon built a temple in Jerusalem dedicated to God.
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King
Solomon
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Da
niel and the lions
Daniel was a great prophet. He lived in the court of the king of Babylonia,where he was a counselor. In Babylonia,the people worshipped false Gods andthere was a law that punished anybodywho failed to worship them.
As Daniel was loyal to God, he was punished. They threw him into a pit of lions. But he was notafraid, because he trusted that God would protecthim from the lions. And they did not harm him. Thus the Babylonians realized that Daniel’s God was the true God.
God asked Jonah the prophet to go to Nineveh and ask the people to begood. Jonah didn’t want to go and he boarded a ship to escape.
While he was on the ship, there was a great stormand Jonah realized that it was his fault for notlistening to God’s orders. So, he asked for the sailorson the ship to throw him into the sea. When he fellinto the water, he was swallowed by a great whale.He asked God for forgiveness and God forgave him.
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Jonah and the whale
One day, an angel appeared beforeMary, who lived in Nazareth, andtold her that she would have a sonand that he would be called Jesus.
Mary excitedly went to see her cousin Elisabeth,who was also pregnant. Elisabeth was themother of the last prophet, John the Baptist, who prepared the hearts of the people for the arrival of Jesus.
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TheAnnunciation
The birth
Mary married Joseph, whowas a carpenter. The bothwent to Bethlehem.
After a long journey, they were very tired and lookedfor a place to stay, but they couldn’t find anywhere,because there were a lot of people. Luckily, a man letthem sleep in his stable. Jesus was born that night.
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Good news
The night when Jesus was born, someshepherds were sleeping in the countrysidenear Bethlehem. Suddenly, the sky lit up andan angel appeared before them and toldthem that a baby had been born inBethlehem and that he was the savior. The shepherds hurried to go and see him.
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Far away fromBethlehem, in the East,there lived three verywise men.
One night, a very bright star appeared beforethem and they thought that it was a sign fromGod, so they loaded their camels and followedthe star, which led them to the stable whereJesus was born. They worshipped him andgave him gold, incense and myrrh.
The
kings fro
m the East
Jesus in the te
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eJesus and his family lived inNazareth. When Jesus was twelveyears old, his parents took him toJerusalem to celebrate Passover.
When the festivities were over, everybody went home.Mary and Joseph thought that Jesus was among the people who were returning. Then they realizedthat he was not with them, so they went back toJerusalem to look for him. They found him in thetemple, speaking with the doctors, who were teachingpeople things about God. Jesus asked them aboutGod and they were impressed by how he spoke.
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Thebaptism
Jesus’ cousin, John the Baptist,lived in a desert. One day, whilehe was in the River Jordan,encouraging people to be goodand baptizing them, Jesusappeared and he asked him to baptize him.
While John baptized him, God told him, referring to Jesus: “He’s my son.”That’s how everybody discoveredthat Jesus was the son of God.
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The disciples of Jesus
Jesus knew that the timehad come to travel theland and teach that Godloved everybody and to ask people to loveeach other.
He needed men to help him to spreadthese messages. So, he chose twelvehelpers, most of whom were fishermen,who he called disciples.
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The
wedding at Cana
Jesus and his disciples wereinvited to a wedding. While Marywas helping with the wedding,the wine ran out.
Then Mary asked her son to do something, becauseshe felt sorry for the bridegroom and his family. Jesus performed his first miracle. He converted six jugs of water in very good wine. Henceforth, his disciples believed and trusted him more.
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Jesus heals the sick
Jesus traveledthroughout the world for three years.
Every time he reached a city, he wasgreeted with great enthusiasm,because he had the power to heal the sick, just by touching them.
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The parables
Jesus was also knownfor telling beautifulstories about the love of God: The parables.
Each of these parables had amessage for the people to be goodand understand that God loved andforgave everybody.
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A man had two sons and he asked the elder to goand work in the vineyardowned by the family.
He replied that he didn’t want to go, but later afterthinking about it, he regretted his answer and decidedto go and work.The father did the same with the younger son, whoquickly replied that he would go to work straightaway, but in the end, he didn’t go. Which of the two sons followed his father’s will?
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the two sons
Parable of
Jesus said: “He who listens to my words and puts theminto practice is like the sensibleman who builds his house by digging the foundations in the rock.
The rain fell, the wind blew, torrents crashedagainst the house, but it was not knockeddown, because it had good foundations.However, he who listens to my words andfails to put them into practice is like thefoolish man who builds his house on the sand. The rain fell, the wind blew, the torrents crashed against the house and it collapsed, because it did not havegood foundations.”
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Parable of the two houses
Para
ble of thegr
ainof mustard
Jesus also said to hisfriends: “What I want fromyou is for you to be a grainof mustard.
When it is sown, the mustard is one of the smallestseeds on the Earth, but when the shrub is born andgrown, it becomes the slenderest of all the plants in the garden. Its branches grow very long and thebirds of heaven take refuge in its shade.”
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the lost sheepParable of
A shepherd had 100 sheep and he lostone. He left the other 99 and went to look for the one that had got lost until he found it.
Then he returned home verypleased and gathered together all his friends to tell them the good news.
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Jesusand the children
One day, some parents tooktheir children to Jesus, so thathe could bless them. But thedisciples told them that Jesuswas very busy.
Jesus saw that the parents and childrenwere very sad and he got angry with the disciples. Then he blessed each of the children.
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ToJeru
salem
One spring, Jesus and hisdisciples went to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.
Jesus rode on an ass and the peoplegreeted him with sprigs of olive and palms.He was very moved to see everybodyadoring him and he entered the city like a king.
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The betrayal of JudasThe high priests thought that Jesushad power over the people and theywanted to kill him.
Judas, one of Jesus’ disciples, did not love him and he didn’t understand him either. So, he told the priests where they could find him, in exchange for thirty pieces of silver.
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The last supperJesus knew that he was going to die soon and he wantedto celebrate the last Passoversupper with his disciples.Although he was sad, he tried to hide it and encouraged them to love one another as he had loved them.During the meal, they drank and ate bread. Jesus told themthat whenever they gatheredtogether for Passover, theyshould remember him.
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The olive grove
After the supper, Jesus went to pray in an orchard at the Mount of Olives.
Some of the disciples followedhim. Suddenly, Judas appearedwith the high priests’ soldiers andthey arrested Jesus and took himto Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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Pontius Pilate askedJesus whether he wasthe son of God and he said yes.
Pilate wanted to free Jesus, because hethough that he had done nothing wrong, but the high priests wanted to kill him andhe listened to them. Finally, Jesus diedcrucified on a hill outside the city.
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The
cruc
ifixion of Jesus
Jesus’ friends buried him in a cave and sealed the entrancewith a great rock.
Three days later, three women went and saw that the stone had been moved. Then an angel appearedbefore them and told them that Jesus had beenresurrected and they went running to the disciples.
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The resurrection
After being resuscitated, Jesus appeared to his friends on several occasions.
One day, he explained to them that he was aboutto go up to heaven with God, but he promisedthem that he would send the Spirit of God, whowould help them to be stronger to tell his storyand his message of salvation to the people.Several days later, his disciples noticed a fire thatgave them light and heat. It was the power thatJesus had transmitted to them to spread what he had taught them throughout the world.
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The ascension
My First Bible
Text: Mercè Segarra
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