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Tesseradecads
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “common jewish customs”. Today it says “symmetrical arrangements of texts and genealogies into groups of fourteen”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Symmetrical arrangements of texts and genealogies into tesseradecads were common Jewish customs.1 One example is the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the book of Luke and in the book of Matthew. Some names of one have been ommitted in order to create tesseradecads in both genoalogies.2
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common jewish customs
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symmetrical arrangements of texts and genealogies into groups of fourteen
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