[Avodah] Mesei Midbar

[menucha]

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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