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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: The Question of Pi
  • Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:02:35 -0400


On 11 Aug 98, at 16:28, RHutchin AT aol.com wrote:


> Q - Does the Hebrew text of v 23 support the reading that the inside
> diameter
> of the molten sea is being described or does it require that we read the
> verse
> as in v 15 to be the outside diameter of the molten sea? Is the Hebrew text
> equivalent in each case?

I would suggest that the text in these cases is not aiming to be
geometrically
precise, or to give precise construction dimensions, but merely to impress
the
reader with the size of the items described. For that purpose,
approximations
are more than sufficient.

Lewis Reich
LBR AT sprynet.com






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