Word: begat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...
However, I was surprised that you failed to make mention of Genesis 5:4 wherein, as you doubtless know, Adam is credited with 800 years of reproductive life. In those years he begat Cain's wife. Thus your third solution to the problem is the only one biblically permissible...
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...cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League and then deserted it, set to work in her truly practical and business way to improvise machinery for getting quick results for limited purposes. If the experiment succeeds, as it will succeed, she may go on to further conquests. But nothing is fixed, and she will be guided...