2007-02-01 07:30:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"There are extensive records about the physical characteristics of the Ark and some of these are included in the Tanakh and Talmud (See Baba Batra 14a, Sota 35a). Jewish Priests and other sources have attempted to estimate the weight of the Ark and its contents. According to this speculation, the Ark alone weighed something like 150-200 kilograms or 330-440 pounds. This figure does not include the two cherubim at either end and records indicate that the cherubim of the Ark were solid and not hollow. Nevertheless, the Tanakh contends that they were made of hammered work thereby heavily inferring that they were constructed of sheet metal. Be that as it may, if solid they are thought to have weighed thousands of kilos or pounds each. According to Levitical tradition, each stone table weighed 40 Se’ah and this quantity of this unit can be converted to about 500 kilograms or about 1100 pounds avoirdupois. Since there were two of these, their combined weight equals roughly 1000 kilograms or 2200 pounds. If one adds the estimated weight of the Ark by itself of 150-200 kilograms plus the estimated weight of the cherubim plus the weight of the stone tables, it immediately becomes clear that it was extremely heavy."
2007-02-01 07:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by Kevan D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your perfect healthy (skinny) weight for your age & height is 120 lbs, 115 - 125 pounds. You are a little "underweight" now (at 113), it would be foolish and "unhealthy" to try to lose more weight when you are already too thin.
2016-03-29 00:12:51 · answer #2 · answered by Rosa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Empty or full of Moses' tablets? Who knows? The ark disappeared almost 3,000 years ago roughly. Nobody knows for sure what it looked like or how much it weighed.
2007-02-01 07:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
245. The same number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
2007-02-01 07:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hold on I`ll be back in a second to go weigh it here in my house.
2007-02-01 07:34:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
six hundred and sixty five pounds
2007-02-01 07:40:51 · answer #6 · answered by metoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than my fat @ss can lift.
2007-02-01 07:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋