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Yes. If you buy a Bible it usually contains the Old Testament and The New Testament as one book.
The 4th book of the Old Testament is the Book of Numbers. It follows the Israelites journey from Mount Sinai to the Plains of Moab on the border of Canaan. It is named "Numbers" because it includes a census of the Israelites at the beginning and end of the 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.
No, Midian was the son of Abraham and Keturah (his second wife). Midian moves east of Canaan. Midian (the place) is hard to pinpoint, but it may have been in present day Jordan at one time, later moving southward into Arabia on the east bank of the Red Sea, possibly shifting even further into the Sinai Peninsula later on. Moab on the other hand, was the son of Abraham's nephew Lot. Therefore, Midian was Abraham's son, and Moab was Abraham's nephew. So Midian and Moab were cousins. Lot got drunk and slept with his two daughters. Moab and Ben-ammi were the results of these incestuous relationships. Moab and Ben-ammi became ancestors of two nations that later fought against the nation of Israel - Moab and Ammon, both in present day Jordan. Hope this helps.
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.
The Old Testament.
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
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.