### Keeping occurrence counts when sections are grouped

The Toledot table supplies eleven formula occurrences distributed across ten major sections. Its only repeated section is Esau: the formulas at Genesis 36:1 and 36:9 occupy positions 9 and 10 but belong to one major section. Terah is occurrence 6. There are therefore five formula occurrences before Terah and five after it, while the section count gives five earlier sections and four later ones.

The difference arises from the chosen measure. Counting sections assigns one unit to the Esau section; counting occurrences assigns it two. Retaining the ten section labels with multiplicities 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1 recovers the eleven-occurrence total and the five-on-each-side balance around Terah. The source need not abandon either grouping to explain why the counts differ.

This establishes a useful shared rule: an aggregation can preserve a source measure if its multiplicities travel with it. It does not follow that every operation on the original occurrence list survives the aggregation. In particular, the doubled Esau section still prevents index reflection from acting consistently on the ten section labels. The center established here is an occurrence-count center; it is not automatically a midpoint in elapsed years or a proof of semantic equivalence between paired headings. Those would require their own supplied measures and relations.

*Sources:* File_70 Appendix B.1, Appendix B.2.

*Research record:* C1023, C1024, C1025, C1026.