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Ezra 1:9-11

"Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates; 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind and 1,000 other articles. All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400."

Can we all agree that 1,000+1,000+410+30+30+29 does not equal 5,400?

2007-07-27 18:58:19 · 12 answers · asked by JWill 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Johnny: Are you suggesting that they mistranslated numbers?

2007-07-27 19:01:12 · update #1

Linda: Just that the text is flawed or our math is.

2007-07-27 19:03:45 · update #2

12 answers

You are reading it wrong. If you look at the whole context of the scripture you will see what it is saying. Your numbers of (30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates; 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind and 1,000 other articles), is what King Cyrus had brought out of the house of the Lord. They were preparing to build a temple. If you look at vs 6 you will see that the people also gave gold, silver, goods, beast and other things for the building of the temple. Since vs 7 starts with ALSO, that lets us know that something that happened before needs to be added to it. The peoples' goods plus what King Cyrus gave equalled the 5400 articles. It's funny how everyone here tried to defend the Bible by saying they used different math and some things were lost in translation. LOL. The truth can defend itself. We just need to learn how to search it out. God Bless.

2007-07-27 19:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by gre9467 3 · 0 1

If you're thinking physical things can't be flawed, then yes, the Bible would be flawed. However, I have 2 possible explanations, one of which I agree with.

1. In the times when they copied the scrolls, a lot of the writings were rubbed to a barely visible state, especially the zeroes. This also occurs quite often in numbers that are debated between the Samuels and Kings'. If you look at it, it says 30 gold bowls and 30 gold dishes. But the proportion of silver bowls to dishes is 410/1000. MAYBE (this is just a maybe. I'm not saying it's true, but it IS a possibility.) there were 3000 gold dishes. That would bring the total to just under 5500, which back in those days they would round down to 5400.

2. Sheshbazzar's accountants were bad at math. This is very unlikely because a miscount of this magnitude would cost a few heads.

Seriously though, keep going through the numbers. There's a lot bigger disasters than this one. They're just not relevant to what the Scriptures say. Can you honestly say that your favorite movie doesn't have some major flaw in it? How long did it take them to write that script? How many authors did it have? Now think of the errors of the Bible? The best thing critics have are the errors in the numbers. And the numbers that are flawed have nothing to do with the message of the Bible.

2007-07-28 02:26:03 · answer #2 · answered by Christian #3412 5 · 0 1

Ask any one that teaches the Bible,preaches, has a ministry...and they will tell you all the words in the Bible or not translated correctly or just some things or left out...the Bible was not found as we see it today ...it was translated from Greek, Aromatic and Hebrew scrolls and several other languages many times...and some word meant different things in the other languages...and their money system was not as ours so it could be right or he may have left some of it out.....The Bible is a very complicated Book, that's why reading a few verses on Sunday morning is not going to get anyone the knowledge they need to know about This the Holy Bible.....

2007-07-28 02:13:39 · answer #3 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 0 0

Johnny 's answer makes me laugh.
Once again the absurdities of the bible, that so called 'holy 'book has so many inaccuracies and contradictions , you ( general you not directed to you)need to be really RETARDED to take the book seriously.

2007-07-28 02:04:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

My God: Ezra was written about 8,000 years ago. How
nit-picky can you be?Who gives a rat's *** how many articles they had?

2007-07-28 02:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

It's because the Bible was not written in English, so any translations out of it's original context make it WRONG. Ever hear of whisper down the lane?

2007-07-28 02:00:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

Hmmmm...Yet another way the bible is wrong.

"The bible contains equal amount of fact, history, and pizza."

2007-07-28 02:01:09 · answer #7 · answered by Cameron L 3 · 1 0

In Biblical times, they used the old math.
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2007-07-28 02:01:50 · answer #8 · answered by Wise@ss 4 · 1 2

yes, because it was a figure of speech to tell us that that number is already alot to the people living in the olden times..

2007-07-28 02:01:20 · answer #9 · answered by anette 3 · 1 2

Y'ALL MEAN TO TELL ME THAT THE BIBLE IS.....(GASP)...wrong?

NO NO , SAY IT AIN'T SO, MAH AUNT FANNY WILL DAMN NEAR HAVE HERSELF A HEART ATTACK IF'N SHE HEYARS THAT THET THAR BIBLE AIN'T ONE HUNNERT PERCINT AKKYURATE LAHK.

now now Aunt Fanny, don y'all lissen to them thar yankees talkin' up some trash 'bout our bible now...hesh, hesh...

2007-07-28 02:05:54 · answer #10 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 1 0

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