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In an age of international travel and migration, we’re familiar with people who look, sound, eat, and believe differently than we do. In order to become friends, it’s helpful to understand where they come from and how they do things differently, or the same, as we do. In the same way it is necessary to understand someone who comes from a different place than we do, how much more necessary is it...

relatively short lifespan—for example, thirty years for women and forty for men—even in the early first millennium in Israel during the time of David. So earlier, it was even shorter, and the need for agricultural labor meant that childbearing had to start early because people died so relatively young.
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