Cipher 6c. Abraham’s Generations 77 77 77 77 (Gen 12-1-21:5)
1. WHO? (12:1) YHWH said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, unto the land that I will show thee:
2. WHY leave? (12:2) and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing;
3. HOW blessed? (12:3) and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
4. WHAT did Abram do? (12:4) So Abram went, as YHWH had spoken unto him;
5. WHEN? (12:4) Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
6. WHERE? (12:5-6) and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh.
7. WHICH way Abram? (12:7) And YHWH appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto YHWH.
Commentary: First, Abram was 75 years old (Gen 12:4) when he left Haran, and then 10 years older at 85 when Ishmael was conceived (Gen 16:1-4). He was 99 years old (Gen 17:1) when the circumcision Covenant was made with God. Therefore 99 less 85 is equal to 14, or 7+7, or with divine equivocation distilled to 77.
The second step on “Abraham’s 77 Cross” is yet another 7+7 or (77). This is a difference of 14 years between Abraham’s age at the birth of Ishmael 86 (Gen 16:16) and 100 at the birth of Isaac (Gen 21:5)
The third step is Abraham’s 77 covenant at Beer-sheba with 7 ewe lambs that Abraham first set aside for Abimelech. He then used the 7 lambs for a covenant with Abimelech where they both swore together that Abraham dug and owned the Beer-sheba well. (Gen 21:28-31)
The fourth 77 results from Abram’s 666 Covenant with God, a promise of 77, since the count of the two birds that live to rise up is the next number after 6 of the killed animals. (Gen 15: 1-14) This is not unlike Noah’s cross with two doves that finish the cross.