Author Topic: How do we all fit?  (Read 9303 times)

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Offline Beowulf

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Re: How do we all fit?
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2007, 11:42:39 pm »
I've heard different statistics then that...about under a million being able to fit. So this is interesting. Did you actually look in a few diff version bibles yourself to draw this conclusion?

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Re: How do we all fit?
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2007, 12:13:23 am »
No, most of it is just copied verbatim from a book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. :)

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Re: How do we all fit?
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2007, 12:27:41 am »
NIV:
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The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[a]in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

A Greek stadia is 185 meters. Ends up as 1,379 miles.

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And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

A furlong is 660 feet. That ends up at 1,500 miles.

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He found out that the city was as wide as it was long and it was as high as it was wide. It was as long as a man could walk in fifty days. It was the same each way.

I have asthma. Figure that one out yourself.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.