Rahab
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Rahab was a prostitute from Jericho during the Israelite conquest of Canaan. In the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible, she is credited with aiding the Israelites by hiding two spies who had been sent
Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies
Rahab Receiveth and Concealeth the Spies by Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1881)
Salmon (biblical figure)
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Salmon or Salmah is a person mentioned in genealogies in both the Hebrew Scriptures and in the New Testament.
Rahab
…in the King James translation of the Greek Ῥαχάβ) is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew as one of the ancestors of Jesus (Matthew 1:5). She married Salmon of the Tribe of Judah and was the mother of Boaz. Most other English Bibles transcribe her name as Rahab. Some have conjectured that Jesus invoked the…
Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Salmon with Boaz and Obed.
Painting of Salmon by Girolamo Tessari in 1526 in Padova, Church of S Francisco