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Yes. If you buy a Bible it usually contains the Old Testament and The New Testament as one book.
Means "of his father" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this was the name of a son of Lot. He was the ancestor of the Moabites, a people who lived in the region called Moab to the east of Israel.
Christians and Jews today believe and study the Old Testament. The Jews made it, but as Jesus was Jewish, Christians study it too.
There are many commandments and instructions in the Old Testament, including the Ten Commandments. God says He never changes, He's the same yesterday, today and forever, so the commands and instructions are applicable to us today.
Some of it can be applied to life today, but remember that lots of it comes from those times so there's several things that would not be applied to life today
The Old Testament.
Miriam in the Old Testament lived in Egypt with her family, as part of the Israelites, before they were led out of slavery by Moses.
Some of the stores of the Old Testament date to about 5,000 years before the occurrences of the New Testament. Others are more recent, but still hundreds of years before the events of the New Testament. The Bible Christians use today was assembled about 300 AD. This would make the answer to the question about 5,300 years between the oldest parts of the old Testament and assembly of the New Testament with the Old Testament to make the Christian bible.
The Hebrew Old Testament is written in Hebrew. The original Catholic Old Testament was translated from the Greek Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture made in the 3rd century B.C.) to Latin, and together with the Latin New Testament was called the Vulgate. Today the Catholic Old Testament is still in Latin, but there are venacular translations available everywhere.
Abraham is first mentioned in the Old Testament.
As far as we know, yes.