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It does, and I don't claim to have answers to those questions, especially since it has been at least several years since I last studied that particular part of the Bible. I have just always been somewhat fascinated from the historiographical point of view in how these old stories may be reflecting something from the ancient past, so could hardly resist adding that.
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The beauty about that bit of the bible when it comes to study is that there are so many versions and so many contradictions both within each version and between versions.
Plus of course so many attempts over thousands of years to try and make them balance, fill in the big gaps and rework the contradictions to lend it some form of maintainable credibility.