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To: Stultis

"since there are far too many (several to a few tens of millions) to fit on the ark"...

Unless the ark were bigger on the inside than on the outside...

There were some mighty strange things about the Ark. First off, no one knows what "gopher wood" was...


543 posted on 06/26/2006 10:16:07 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan
Unless the ark were bigger on the inside than on the outside...

That would be an interesting ark design. Do you suggest that it looked something like this?

544 posted on 06/26/2006 10:17:32 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: B-Chan
one knows what "gopher wood" was...

Imaginary comes to mind.

550 posted on 06/27/2006 6:13:21 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: B-Chan
First off, no one knows what "gopher wood" was...


KJV Genesis 6:14
 14.  Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
 
ASV Genesis 6:14
 14.  Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
 
ROM Genesis 6:14
   `aseeh lkaa teebat `atseey-goper qiniym ta`aseh 'et-hateebaah wkaapartaa 'otaah mibayit uumixuuts bakoper.
 
(Maybe a phonetic spelling??)
 

[From Easton's Bible Dictionary]
Topics: Go'pher
 
Text:  a tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Gen. 6:14). It is mentioned only there. The LXX. render this word by "squared beams," and the Vulgate by "planed wood." Other versions have rendered it "pine" and "cedar;" but the weight of authority is in favour of understanding by it the cypress tree, which grows abundantly in Chaldea and Armenia.
 
 
NIV Genesis 6:14
 14.  So make yourself an ark of cypress  wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
 
 
LIT Genesis 6:14
  |6213| Make |0000| for yourself |8392| a ship of |6086| cypress |7613| timbers. |7064| compartments |6213| You must make |0854| in the |8392| ship. |3722| And you must cover |0853| it |1004| inside |2351| and out |3724| with tar.

568 posted on 06/27/2006 10:40:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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