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Did Moses write about Jesus? Jesus himself made this bold claim (recorded in John 5:46). Yet while most readers of the Bible today recognize a few Messianic prophecies in the Pentateuch, they don’t often see them as part of its central message. In The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch, Kevin Chen challenges the common view of the Pentateuch as focused primarily on the Mosaic Law, arguing instead...

in the genealogy in Genesis 10 (see Gen 10:5, 18, 20, 31–32). But not every individual will be blessed, as Genesis 12:3 implies. It is only those who “bless” Abram who will be blessed. The one who “curses” him will indeed be cursed. Evidently, there will be some from every “family” who choose the former. There is thus a clear division of human beings into two groups—those who bless Abram and are blessed, and those who curse him and are cursed (see Gen 27:29). The related reference to his “seed” who
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