Q&A: The Patriarchs
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The Patriarchs
Question
Does it seem plausible to you that Abraham lived to 175, Isaac to 180, and Jacob to 147? Or are these symbolic numbers? Or something else?
Answer
I have no idea.
Again, that makes it even less plausible, because in the past people didn't live that long… Maybe it's symbolic, like the age of our matriarch Sarah, who died at 127 and looked like a 20-year-old, with the innocence of a 7-year-old, something like that…