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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
Right. We all know that not every Father and Son are named in genologies. It is not uncommon for several people to be skipped. That doesn't make them figurative or symbolic, they are still literal, they are just not exhaustive.
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So then they can't be used for dating purposes then, can they?
In fact, one would have to conclude that the author (who knew he was "skipping" generations) never even intended that the genealogies be used as such.
They weren't dummies back in antiquity. And, they weren't trying to pull some sort of "coadie-like" stunt in trying to get us to believe something that had never really happened (like coadie speaking "6 languages").
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