Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Do you think that maybe when they gave this nice
> tidy impossible number of "forests stretching ten
> thousand leagues in every direction" that maybe
> this is just a figure of speech for say, "as far
> as the eye can see"? And of all the things in the
> EoG, this is what you guys focus on to show
> the events it speaks of are not "actual events"?
> Lol. Apparently you have not actually read it. And
> by the way, if you are going to really be so
> pedantic as to actually bother to calculate the
> dimensions you might want to use the Babylonian
> league and not the English league which I think is
> a little less than a mile.

I did a 5 min. search for Mesopotamian measurements and couldn't find what they equal in our measurements. Meso had a 60 base system, odds are their league was not the same as what came much later. But without a measuring stick of some sort, or detailed measurements of every niche in a ziggurat, like have been given for the pyramids, I don't know how they could know exactly what their league was. It's not like the tablets said.... a cubit equals X number of Greek pous.

It being a figure of speech is a strong possibility. Or as Race said, the numbers are all messed up for several reasons.