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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 14, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D84005F00B389C17000083FD38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Now from my fuzzy memory of scripture, Jacob had to   
   > work for seven years before he could marry Leah and   
   > another seven before he could marry Rachel. So   
   > for a long while I was assuming that he had a period   
   > of 14 low/working/wilderness years, similar to Rama.   
   >   
   > However more recently I have divined that Jacob   
   > had 18 low/working years, the most of any human   
   > (and the same as 9 cetaceans) in the last 10,000 years.   
   >   
   > So is there any evidence in scripture or in history   
   > of the extra four years, or total of 18 years,   
   > rather than 14 years?   
      
   March 23 is National Jacob Day.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
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