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18 Bible Verses for a Birthday, and the Only Two Birthdays Scripture Records

Christian Pure Team

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Zusammenfassung

  • The Bible records two birthday parties — Pharaoh’s and Herod’s — and a man loses his life at each; it neither commands the day nor forbids it.
  • Numbers 6:24-26 is the oldest biblical text ever found, scratched on silver scrolls buried outside Jerusalem around 600 BC.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles told the return was seventy years off, so the hope in it was never on a personal timetable.
  • Lamentations 3:22-23 was written in the ruins of a destroyed city, which is why it holds up for someone having a hard year.
  • Psalm 90:12, rarely in these lists, is the one verse that treats a birthday as information: teach us to number our days.

Scripture records exactly two birthday parties, and a man loses his life at each of them. Pharaoh holds a feast on his birthday and hangs his chief baker. Herod holds one and has John the Baptist beheaded because of an oath he swore in front of his guests. Neither story is a warning about candles, and nothing in the Bible forbids the day or commands it — Scripture simply never legislates it. What it does have is a great deal…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The two birthday feasts are at Genesis 40:20-22 and Mark 6:21-28.

The silver scrolls carrying the priestly blessing were excavated at Ketef Hinnom, outside Jerusalem, and are dated to the late seventh or early sixth century BC.

The instruction to build houses in Babylon, two verses before the promise, is at Jeremiah 29:4-10.

The request to number our days is at Psalm 90:12, in a psalm attributed to Moses.

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