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thick plot of matrices, strings and mathematical functions, which were certainly not his specialty. To better perceive what there was beyond those verses in Gen. 30 in relation to his fa- mily – now that he too was a father to six boys and one girl (the last of the seven children), just as had been with his father, and just as is depicted in the biblical passage – Timothy P. N U M E R I C , S Y M B O L A N D C H A R AC T E R S E Q U E N C E S Smith learned from experiences among Native American communities, as well as conversations with scholars and scientists on this subject: to ascertain the existence of a sequence in the biblical text that can be decoded, that may take us to find a number of messages God prepared for His people and for a determined time, a time that may have come given Smith’s results. And yet, he claims this is but the tip of the iceberg. www.biblion.pt/en 33