The next was a remark posted at Crooks and Liars. One respondent steered that query #5 was a trick query noting that God and never Moses did the deed.
AJ Jacobs
Hallelujah! Thanks to my inventive associates for all these nice Biblical math issues. They’ll actually assist the Oklahoma college superintendent’s aim of inserting biblical content material into math and science! I’ve collected a large number of the issues into one put up for ease of studying:
1) Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3).
If he lay with one spouse or concubine each night time, however took off at some point per week for relaxation, what number of days would it not take him to put with all of his wives and concubines?
2) David captured the foreskins of 200 Philistines (1 Samuel 18:27).
If David cut up these foreskins into baskets of 40 foreskins every, what number of baskets would he want?
3) The prophet Elisha summoned two she-bears to kill 42 kids after they mocked him for being bald (2 Kings 2:24)
One she-bear mauled twice as many kids as the opposite she-bear. What number of children did every she-bear maul? (Use fractions)
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4) Jael killed Basic Sisera by driving a tent peg into his cranium. (Judges 4:21)
If Jael may hammer 1.5 inch per blow and the peg was 9 inches lengthy, what number of blows would she have to drive the peg all the way in which in?
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5) Moses parted the Crimson Sea (Exodus 14:21).
If he moved the water within the Crimson Sea at 1,000 cubic liters per second, how lengthy would it not take him to half the Hudson River?
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6) There are 8.7 million animal species on Earth. If Noah took two of every of them onto the ark, what number of sq. cubits of house had been required to accommodate all 17.4 million passengers?
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7) Elijah killed 450 prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:40). If it took him one minute to kill every pagan prophet, how lengthy would it not take him expressed in hours
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8 ) Adam and Eve had two sons. One killed the opposite.
So the place did all of the individuals
come from?
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9) Jezebel was thrown from a window and died (2 Kings 9:33). If the window was 30 toes excessive, and he or she fell at a fee of 16 toes per second squared attributable to gravity, what number of seconds did it take for her to achieve the bottom? (Use the system ( s = frac{1}{2}gt^2 ), the place ( s ) is the space, ( g ) is the acceleration attributable to gravity, and ( t ) is the time in seconds).
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ALSO I’ve began to craft an introduction to the Biblical Math ebook. One thing like:
The Bible and arithmetic make an ideal match. Simply think about the identify of the Bible’s fourth ebook: Numbers.
So college students of Oklahoma, go forth and multiply (and add, and subtract, and divide).
As soon as once more, thanks all in your assist on this challenge for the scholars of Oklahoma!
