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Are all the main people in the Bible?

Related or are they all apart of the 12 tribes?

Update:

No are they all apart of the same family tree?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Generally **all** people are related just a few generations back (about 50, if I recall correctly). That is: everyone alive is related to each other no further than 50 generations in the past.

    To word that more simply: you and any other particular human alive right now share at least one common ancestor within the past 50 generations.

    To answer your question more directly: the Bible teaches that all people before Noah were related through Adam and Eve (just 9 generation previous), and that all people after Noah were related through Noah himself. So: in that sense *all* people in the Bible are related.

    However, if we "fast forward" to - say - the time of Joseph son of Jacob, when the Israelites took up residence in Egypt - at that point there is no apparently family relationship between the Israelites and - for example - Pharaoh. Though they are related through Noah, that is so distant in time that the Israelites and Egyptians do not consider themselves to be related peoples by the time that the Israelites enter Egypt. They consider each other foreigners. Likewise the Ishmaelites. Even though they are related to the Israelites through Abraham, they treat the Israelites as foreigners (purchasing Joseph as a slave and selling him to the Egyptians).

    So - the answer is "no, not all the main people - but most of the main people in the Bible are Jewish and therefore are a part of one of the 13 Jewish tribes" (Yes - there are, in fact, 13 tribes, not 12).

    - Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

  • 8 years ago

    Most of the main people ( the good ones at least ) are related . Technically though everyone descends from Adam and Eve so we are all somewhat related . Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's children . Noah was a descendant of Seth , another child of Adam and Eve . Noah had three sons - Ham , Shem , and Japheth . Nimrod the Evil Emperor who basically restarted the atrocities after the flood was a descendant of Ham . Abraham was a descendant of Seth . Abraham was the father of Ishmael and Isaac . He also had other children by a woman named Keturah ( who became the other arab tribes , such as the midianites , who were later absorbed by the Ishmaelites ) . Isaac had Jacob and Esau . Jacob was ancestor of the 12 tribes and therefore the israelites .

    Babylonians descend from Nimrod . They mixed with apostate israelites to create a cultic , false , apostate form of Judaism ( the pharisees ) , which Messiah condemned . Christ was the almighty in the flesh , and is called the son of the father because he comes from the father , the father is the origin of his soul . Christ in the flesh was born to Mary , a descendant of King David , who was Judah 's descendant ( Judah was one of Jacob's sons and progenitor of the Judah Tribe ) .

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    According to the myths used in the Bible, they are all related.

    Edit: According the the myths used in the Bible, all of humanity is from the same family tree, with Adam and Eve being the root.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Yeah. Because in the beginning of the Bible after Noah's Ark there goes like 2 full pages of Isaac is the son of john and john is the son of Jehoshaphat and Jehoshaphat is the son of Harold and Harold is the son of Esther and Esther is the mother oh Jeremiah and Jeremiah is the father of Herman.......so on and so forth for like a good page in a half. So I am guessing they are all related and this goes on until Jesus who is at the end of the line. Maybe started from Abraham or something.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    depending on who you consider to be main, no they are not all a part of the 12 tribes of Israel. Technically everyone is related though. First from Adam and Eve and then from Noah.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Yes its been like this for 6000 yrs, as Apocalypse is the closing Book.. Nothing can be added and Nothing taken... It was written that way so that mans fear of a Greater being deters them from tampering with Gods word.

    As for the Tribes that is past as today's Jews were not from that promise and do not practice the law as in Exodus...

    We live by Grace today as when Jesus came, much of that life style and worship was modified.

    Source(s): John 3:16 Galatians 5
  • G C
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    There are many other kings and kingdoms and people from other places mentioned in the Bible. It starts with Adam and Even and they were not Jewish.

    The truth of the revelation of God was entrusted to the Jews. This is why so much Jewish history is found in the Bible.

  • 8 years ago

    if u read tha bible you,ll find that the 12 tribes are 12 sons that came from jacob but different wifes.

  • 8 years ago

    All the main people in the Bible are from the same bloodline, that is Abraham. And he's a Israelite aka a Jew.

  • 8 years ago

    I do not think there were any people from Maine in the bible.

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