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23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits[o] to measure around it.

Here is one of those popular "math" verses, but I've wondered what is the deal with it. Obviously the circumference would have been 1.4159265359 cubits longer, if the diameter were actually 10 cubits.

Maybe it's only in that we are suppose to notice the difference and rounding, or maybe that someone wasn't measuring properly, or that it took the 30 cubit line, and then some... not set it up as a pi "proof text", haha.

Or maybe it's a new paradigm that transcends normal rules. :)

7 posted on 08/18/2017 12:03:13 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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OR...the circumference could have been measured INSIDE a wide rim, and thus be shorter.


8 posted on 08/18/2017 12:09:26 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem






Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

9 posted on 08/18/2017 12:11:08 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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