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MARRIAGE IN BIBLE Marriage is truly a ubiquitous topic in the Bible.  Since it is the preferred state of adults in the Old Testament, most all the characters of the Bible were married.  In the New Testament, more of the main players are unmarried, but the majority were still married. Find out what the Bible has to say about marriage by examining these verses “The LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’ Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made

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THE STORY OF JESUS' BIRTH AND FAMILY WHEN WAS JESUS BORN? - Matthew 2:1 (NIV) After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.". [NOTES: King Herod the Great died about 4 BCE. If the Magi came from the east, they would have been going westward.] WHEN WAS JESUS BORN? - Luke 2:1-3 (NIV) In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius/Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register. [NOTE: This census took place in 6 CE.] WHO WAS JESUS' GRANDFATHER? - Matthew 1:16 Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. [NOTE: Matthew's list differs from the list of David's descendants in 1 Chron