The Bible has God's own signature written into the original texts just like the watermark on a sheet of stationary, or a bank note filigree.

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It is likely that this is what led the Jewish oral tradition to confirm that Dina who was not quoted amongst her eleven brothers was hidden by Jacob in the luggage (in verse 22 only eleven of the sons of Jacob are quoted, whereas at this point Jacob had twelve children of which one daughter Dina).

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Another interesting example concerns Joseph´s dreams in Genesis chapter 37 verses 9 and 10. The latter tells his father and brothers that he has seen the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bow down before him. Jacob understands the meaning of the dream and declares: "Must your mother, your brothers and me come and bow down before you?" However, at this time Rachel the mother of Joseph was dead. Jewish tradition has looked at this problem and has solved it in this way: after the death of Rachel, her children Joseph and Benjamin were looked after by Bilha, Jacob´s servant who brought them up as if they were her own children, so much so that Joseph considered her to be his mother; Joseph´s dream must therefore be about Bilha and not Rachel. Within this very same text, the names of both Rachel and Bilha appear in code ... But there is more. If one reads the Hebrew text without spacing between the words, then this phrase appears: "Rachel dead Bilha".

Another startling example concerns Leviticus chapter 23 verse 40 and following. It is the ritual of the feast of Tabernacles that must be celebrated with products of the land: "Choice fruit from the tree, palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars". In this list two trees are not specifically mentioned: these are the "Choice fruit" and "leafy branches". From all time, Jewish tradition had stated that the "Choice fruit tree" was a type of lemon tree and the "leafy branches" a type of box tree (etrog and loulav in Hebrew). In fact the names of these two trees are coded into the very text of Leviticus chapter 23.

Let us now take genesis chapter 38: the story of Judah and Tamar which deals with the question of the levirate, that is the order that we find in Deuteronomy chapter 25 verses 5 to 10 the terms of which are that the brother of a man who dies without child must marry his widow and have a son from her who will be considered as an heir of the deceased. In this text we find in a code of 50 the word "levirate", the name "Judah" and again the word "levirate" but with a code of 248, which is the sum total of all the commandments in the Torah where God says "You shall". But things do not stop there. In the same text, one finds the names of Boaz and Ruth, Obed and Ishai and David himself. That is there is a very clear coded reference to the book of Ruth which tells the story of the ancestors of King David and which also deals with the question of levirate. There are here very clear references to what was still in the future for the author of the book of Genesis. Still in the same passage of Genesis chapter 38, using a code of 26 one finds the expression "Ruth Torah" and "Torah Ruth". In fact the book of Ruth is closely linked with the Torah because it is the book that one reads on the day of Pentecost (Passover) which is the gift of the Torah.