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Pls, make it clear for me!

Posted by CjK on May 09, 2004

This is from Mark Twain's 'A Telephonic Conversation'... historymatters.gmu.edu/ d/5756/

"It's forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-fourth to ninety-seventh inclusive." ... I cannot figure out what these fractions made from. At first, I guessed they're chapters & pages. I've searched for Deuteronomy, there are only 34 chapters, and 29 paragraphs in chapter 9. ... I'm not a Christain nor English native speaker. Pls, make it clear for me!

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