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  2. Biblical numerology - Wikipedia

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    Revelation uses the number twelve to refer to the number of angels (Rev. 21:14), number of stars (12:1), twelve angels at twelve gates each of which have the names of the twelve apostles inscribed (Rev. 21:12), the wall itself being 12 x 12 = 144 cubits in length (Rev. 21:17) and is adorned with twelve jewels, and the tree of life has twelve ...

  3. 40 (number) - Wikipedia

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    40 is an abundant number.. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler noted 40 prime numbers generated by the quadratic polynomial + +, with values =,,,...,.These forty prime numbers are the same prime numbers that are generated using the polynomial + with values of from 1 through 40, and are also known in this context as Euler's "lucky" numbers.

  4. List of books of the King James Version - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. When citing the Latin Vulgate , chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for ...

  5. 144,000 - Wikipedia

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    The number 144,000 appears three times in the Book of Revelation: Revelation 7:3–8: saying: "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of God on their foreheads." And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,

  6. List of gospels - Wikipedia

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    The New Testament includes four canonical gospels, (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) but there are many gospels not included in the biblical canon. [3] These additional gospels are referred to as either New Testament apocrypha or pseudepigrapha. [4] [5] Some of these texts have impacted Christian traditions, including many forms of iconography.

  7. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the Egyptian system, which has units for multiples of 1, 10, 20, 40, 80, ... In Talmudic times many more measures of capacity were used, ... In the Bible, the ...

  8. Book of Numbers - Wikipedia

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    MS. Kennicott 3, created in 1299. Shows the beginning of Numbers with its first word illustrated with calligraphy: וידבר ‎ Way-ḏabbêr, "And He spoke…" Most commentators divide Numbers into three sections based on locale (Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab), linked by two travel sections; [7] an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of ...

  9. Jubilee (biblical) - Wikipedia

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    The Talmud (Arakhin 12b) accounts for 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and 7 years taken to conquer the land of Canaan and 7 years to divide the land among the tribes, putting the first Jubilee cycle precisely 54 years after the exodus (i.e. in 1258 BC), and saying that the people of Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered ...