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The revelation orders history through weeks of years, jubilees, cycles, days, months, Sabbaths, and feasts.
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What is written by the messengers upon the heavenly tablets will come to its appointed fulfillment.
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The sun, moon, and stars are established as signs by which times are reckoned.
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Ezra is commanded to learn the sequence from Adam toward the end of the appointed periods and reveal it only to those judged worthy.
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The manuscript assigns cycles from Adam to Chanoch, Yered, Lamekh, Noach, Ever, Nachor, Avraham, Eglon, Yonatan, Ptolemaic rulers, Diocletian, and later ages.
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Nearly all of the numerical values in this section are damaged or internally corrupt in Halévy's manuscript.
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HaSefarim therefore preserves the sequence without converting uncertain numerals into false chronology.
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The governing structure remains clear: human history is divided into recurring units under a heavenly reckoning.
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The text states that each of the seven days can symbolize a thousand-year period within its computation.
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Ezra calls this the true course of the present age, written during the days associated in the narrative with the destruction of Yerushalayim.
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The revelation is compared with what was shown to Mosheh upon the mountain.