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Our Lady of Kibeho (Marian Apparition)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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How Does Hebrew Genealogy Work?

In ancient israel, they commonly did things like skip generations. In hebrew, the word for father also means grandfather and great grandfather. And so that makes it very easy to skip generations. Another thing that happens in hebrew genealogies is you a can have posthumous adoptions. So given that this is the oldest set of genealogies describing a prime eval period in earthe history, there may be a large degree of reconstruction here.

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