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But considerable family history research has been confined to the name line largely just to make it more manageable in size. This was 100% of all the recorded thousand s in the usa. The number first named is 144,000, twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes of israel. The thousand names is marvelously written, ingeniously conceived, and great fun. And there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand. Passages are given in fullsentence answers and puzzlehidden message exercises are reproduced with the correct answers filled in. They believe the former indicates the converted from among the jews, and the latter those saved from the gentiles.
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