Re: Jacob 18-years-low/working years in scripture or history?
David Dalton <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Mar 2025 04:48:05 -0230
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On Mar 14, 2025, David Dalton wrote (in article<[email protected]>): > 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 [email protected] 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)