Six Pairs Whose Years Were Equal from Rebekah to Akiva

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 110:13

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There are six pairs whose years were equal: Rebekah and Kehat; Levi and Amram; Joseph and Joshua; Samuel and Solomon; Hillel the Elder and Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai; Moses our teacher and Rabbi Akiva.

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