Some of the patterns were used to check if copies had any mistakes, by the Scribes who copied by hand every letter, and still do today. Jesus himself said in Mat 5:18 that every letter of the Torah would not be missing, even until the end times. Even though patterns among the letters is not mentioned in the Scriptures, and the many Translations have most of the Hebrew letters missing, the patterns may be sanctionable with this verse. Also as computers became normally available, many more patterns were found, that seemed odd and interesting. The most well known pattern, is that Genesis 1:1, is made of 7 words, of 28 letters, and 28=4*7. [[Ivan Panin]] (Ivan Nikolayevich Panin 1855 to 1942) is famous for finding patterns of 7s among the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. He was called the Father of "Bible numerics", which is still developed in Israel more than in other Countries today. From about the 2nd Century BC, each Hebrew letter, was also a number. Genesis 1:1 therefore adds up...