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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Oil

Texas oilman seeks gusher from God in Israel

A Texas oilman is using his Bible as a guide to finding oil in the Holy Land.
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“Most blessed of sons be Asher. Let him be favored by his brothers and let him dip his foot in oil,” Brown quotes from Moses’s blessing to one of the 12 Tribes of Israel in Deuteronomy 33:24.

Standing next to a 177-foot derrick at Kibbutz Maanit in northern Israel, Brown said the passage indicated there is oil lying beneath the biblical territory of the Tribe of Asher, where the agricultural community is located.

Ummm... I guess you could interpret it that way.