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But the bible doesn’t tell you how to do that. In fact, the two hands is not determined in the bible. so the bible doesn’t give anything to any amazing degree of accuracy. It gives an ambiguous number, which may, or may not be accurate. Like many prophecies, you can only determine it is accurate after you have decided that it is accurate.

I'm sure that if you were one of those ignorant types who was too lazy or too stupid to bother investing any time into actually studying the subject he was speaking about, you'd come to that conclusion. But donmeaker's not that type of guy, right? Surely donmeaker had enough foresight to read up a little on the archaeology, etc. of the subject to know that a "hand" was actually a standard unit of measurement, as was the cubit, which was not actually dependent on the width of each and every different individual's hand, rather like we use "feet" without it being dependent on any single person's foot length.

You did bother to know what you were talking about before you spoke, right?

Oh, you didn't? Oh my.

So the "argument" would be similar to this: 5000 years from now someone is denying accurate measurement techniques to those of the present since all that survived to indicate anything is a fragment of a book that says the distance of a runway was 10,000 feet and, as we all know, people's feet differ greatly in length, so using the length of someone's foot wasn't a very accurate means of measurement and why would anyone be making a "runway" anyway? Was that something for all those feet to run around? Huh? There are legends about people being able to fly back then? How could running ever get you anything but tired out? This just demonstrates that the ancients believed all sorts of fantastic stuff that we know now to be impossible.

Sure the hand was a standard unit of measurement. What that value was is open to debate, and has some degree of ambiguity, as accuracy was limited by the level of technology.

Twit.