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Genesis 35:16

And they are pulling-up from House of El, and he is becoming again a kibrath1090 of the Earth to come in Fruitful-ward,1091 and Ewe is bearing, and she is hardened in her bearing.


Footnote:

1091

Strong’s #672, Ephrathah, fruitful. A name for Bethlehem in Micah 5:2,

And yourself is House of Bread, Fruitful, little to become in thousands of Shooting [Judah], from you to-myself he is going out to become a ruling-one in El-Strives, his origins [“going-out” in noun form] are from the front [east], from the days of olam…”

It’s probably worth paying attention to this theme of miqedem (front, east, sunrise) as we find it curiously elsewhere:

“…and behold the Star which [or who?] they saw in the dawn-rising [i.e. east] lead them forth until having come it [he] stood over where the child was.” Matthew 2:9 literal