How to translate 7 years.
Then Jacob continued on his adventure to the land of the east. He saw a well in a field, the well gave water for the sheep and a large stone covered it (Is this code for something else -Ed ) Three flocks gathered and they rolled away the stone from the well, watered the sheep and then re turned the stone to it's place. Jacob asked them 'Hey brothers where are you guys from ?' They said 'Haram' He asked them 'Do you know Laban sonj of Nahor ?' 'Yes they replied, 'Is he alright ?' They said; 'Look Rachel his daughter is coming with sheep belonging to her father because she is a shepherd' When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban of his mother he wept. Jacob said to Rachel 'You are my relative and I am the son of Rebecca. She ran and told her father. As soon as Laban heard the news of Jacob son of his sister arrived he ran to meet him, embraced him and brought him home. Jacob told him everything . Laban said 'You are my flesh snf blood. After Jacob had stayed a full month Laban said to Jacob; 'You are my relative and you cannot work for nothing what wage do you want ?' Now Laban had two daughters Leah was the eldest and Rachel younger. Leah had delicate eyes, (another double meaning here I suppose-Ed) But Rachel had a beautiful figure. He said 'I will work for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter' Laban said well it is better to give her to you than someone else. Stay here with me. Jacob worked for seven years but it seemed like a few days because he was in love. Jacob then said to Laban 'Give me my wife because I have completed the contract period and will have sex with her.' Laban gathered all the people and they had a feast but in the evening took Leah and gave her and he had sex with her. As well Laban gave Zilpah as a servant to Leah his daughter. What!!!!! In the morning it was Leah! Look whyh did you do this to me ? Its not Rachel who I worked for. You decieved me! Laban replied 'Here it isn't our tradition to give away the younger before the first born. Finish seven and we will give you also for that work for another seven years. Thus Jacob did finish the seven and then was given Rachel his daughter for a wife. Laban gave to Rachel Bilhah as a servant. He had sex with Rachel and loved Rachel more than Leah and worked for her for seven more years. When I Am saw that Leah was not loved he opened her womb but Rachel was barren. Leah concieved and gave birth to a son named Reuben/see a son because I Am saw her misery so now won't my husband love me ? She coocieved again and gave birth and when a son was born she said I Am has heard I was unloved and gave me him as well. So she called him Simeon/he hears. She concieved again and gave birth to a son a third time. My husband will be attracted to me for having three sons therefore she named him Levi/attracted. She concieved again and gave birth to a son and said the time has to come to praise I Am so she named him Judah/praise then stopped having babies.
To quote Chuck Missler "This passage is kinda interesting in that it" from the outset uses to covenant words in Biblical Arabic Hebrew Ayin for eye/spring and Beer for Well/covenant/marriage. Nowhere can I think of seeing in the Bible this description of a the well covered by a stone so it is in typical "what do all men think about" typical middle eastern style saying that Rachel is a virgin and as we shall see like others in her clan barren so that having a child by here is a miracle- But hey isn't there some other story about a heavy stone being removed and angels sitting on it after it had sealed up the eternal covenant we have made with death (see an earlier post on Isaiah 28 Drunken Ephraim) and things then by God alone break free forever. Jacob weeps here because eye/spring his eyes are a spring and it is love again at first sight same as his father and mother in their story. And this story is just so precious to Joseph in Egypt who has to understand the meaning of Seven. Now previously I have writing to the Egyptian preacher Micheal Yousef said that only this family knew the meaning of seven which clearly in this story gaining definition as seven years despite the week of days in the middle when he gets two wives..But I am wrong! In the Gilgamesh epic there is the 49 chambers and following on in the book of Esther there is a seven day end of six months party... so there in Babylonian and ion Persian culture we have seven as relating to significant religion etc So it is ignorant arrogance to say that Egyptian magicians or Persian magicians both coming with Ham out of the pre ShemEber religion, that they weren't unaware of the revelation from God of the number seven. Just that they didn't take it the way some of us do as being a paramount key. What Micheal Yousf correctly says is that Egyptian culture has always from the start been about interpreting dreams- they do it better than anyone else. But again it is applying thew correct code keys in the correct order that unlocks the text... Enjoy thanks for coming along for the adventure as we open the bible in afresh new way love paul Mangere New Zealand.
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