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A: The ancients did not use formal mathematical procedures as we do today, but they had invented numerology, which they thought to give numbers magical meaning through formulas we would recognise as like our mathematical equations. Examples in the Old Testament include the way the various ages of the biblical ancestors and patriarchs were arrived at. Most of the lifespans in the Genesis genealogies involve the
number 17, for example the Patriarchs:
- Abraham lived to 175 (5 X 5 X 7)
- Isaac lived to 180 (6 X 6 X 5)
- Jacob lived to 147 (7 X 7 X 3)
Here we can see:
- Each lifespan involves a perfect square (5, 6, then 7 in a numeric series),
- the third factor also forms a series (7, 5, 3)
- in each case the sum of the factors is 17.
Joseph, favoured son of Jacob, is sometimes referred to as the fourth patriarch, and his 110 years are the sum of these consecutive square numbers (110 = 5x5 +6x6 + 7x7). Interestingly, the first man in Genesis, Adam, has a life span of 930 years, (= 30x30 + 30), and the last man in Genesis, Joseph, has a life span of 110 years (= 10x10 + 10). And Adam's lifespan can also be related to his immediate descendants by another series containing the number 17.
Genesis says Abraham's wife Sarah lived to 127 years, which is the sum of those consecutive square numbers plus 17, or (127 = 5x5 + 6x6 + 7x7 + 17).
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∙ 13y ago1 Kings 7:23 says, And he made the sea cast of bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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∙ 11y agoProbably the best known place in The Bible that mathematics is used in the Bible is when God commanded Noah to build the ark. You have to be good in math to build a boat that large.
Genesis 6:15 (NKJV)
And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
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