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Started by iago, July 23, 2007, 12:22:12 AM

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Beowulf

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?

iago

No, most of it is just copied verbatim from a book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. :)

Joe

NIV:
QuoteThe 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.

KJV:
QuoteAnd 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.

NLV:
QuoteHe 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.
Quote from: Camel on June 09, 2009, 04:12:23 PMI'd personally do as Joe suggests

Quote from: AntiVirus on October 19, 2010, 02:36:52 PM
You might be right about that, Joe.