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Were tongues for believers or unbelievers?

Were tongues for believers or unbelievers?

1 Corinthians 14:

22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

Tongues were for unbelievers and not for believers. Only 4 verses later:

26b When you co…

Isaac’s Blessing of His Sons

Isaac’s Blessing of His Sons

Let’s first mention several verses of the Book of Genesis:

Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. (Gen. 25:28)
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath d…

Time span between Genesis 15:13 and Genesis 46:6

Time span between Genesis 15:13 and Genesis 46:6

Is it possible, on the basis of the text, to establish the approximate time span between God’s prophesy to Abraham about his descendants’ being mistreated in Egypt:

"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
s…