8:20

[Cometman]

--- James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

 
>
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/religion/christianity/bible/genesis/8.html
> 
> Genesis 8:20 happens to be the first appearance in the Bible of the
> word holocaust (actually holocausts) in its sense of "burnt offering"
> (as the King James version has it)
> 
>

that is eerie, and possibly pynchonically intended - after all, he
named a whole character in Vineland after a Bible verse, a-and doesn't
he delve in to Genesis a couple times in GR