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Children of Israel
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Time Zone:EST (New York, Toronto)
Messenger: Young Lion
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11/30/2010 4:54:01 PM
greetings,
I being a habeshan from the hamite people of the north of Ithiopia from the tribe of Binyam(Benjamin), my roots come from Israel. When my dad visited the villages of Northern Ithiopia where were from, an elder traced back our lineage all the way back to Abraham! Now i've learned that some Rastas claim descendants from Israel from the month they were born. I being born in Febraury am not from the tribe of Yosef(Joseph) as i believe 12 tribes acknowledge. So basically i would like to know how do Africans in the west or Africans in general know they are children of Israel, and not just children of Abraham? And further what was the population of Israel. Ethiopia have direct evidence with Israel through Menelik the I when Sheba Met Solomon and brought many tribesman as well as Ark of Covenant to Ethiopia...