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Fourteen
To explain my tag name Fourteen:
Matthew 1:17 - "So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are fourteen generations; and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ, are fourteen generations."
Why are we being told this seemingly irrelevant fact? This has to do with a fascinating linguistic trick with Hebrew, whereby each letter correlates to a particular number. The name David in Hebrew is three letters with the sounds D-V-D (vowels are not independent letters.) D (daled) is the fourth letter and so has a value of four, and V (vav) is the sixth letter and therefore has a value of six. Thus D-V-D correlates to 4-6-4 equaling 14.
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