[Avodah] Mesei Midbar
menucha
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Fri Aug 15 05:50:32 PDT 2008
Since the mifkadim and erechin were very specifically by ages, didn't
they have to know how old they were?
menucha
T613K at aol.com wrote:
> Probably a lot of people didn't keep such good records and they didn't
> exactly have birth certificates so they may not have known exactly how
> old they were. I'm guessing they would dig graves when they got close
> to age sixty and thought it /might/ be this year. If you think that
> it's strange people wouldn't know how old they were, when we lived in
> S. Africa we found that a lot of tribal people didn't know how old
> they were.
> >>>>>
>
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