EX 28:34-35 Entering the holy place without wearing bells can result in death.
EX 12:37, NU 1:45-46 The number of men of military age who take part in the Exodus is given as about 600,000. Allowing for women, children, and older men would probably mean that a total of more than 2,000,000 Israelites left Egypt at a time when the whole population of Egypt was less than 2,000,000.
This is the kind of garbage that the Bible is full of. it strongly implies that earth is 6,000 years old. The right wing fundamentalist evangelical morons who believe this actually have some biblical basis.
One has to sort out the wheat from the chaff in the Bible. The most profound truths, the most beautiful poetry is there, the most supreme guidelines for social/pollitical responsibility are there. And for those who are believers, the story of God Incarnate who came to redeem the world is there.
But it is a pre-scientific document. In the light of modern science and reason, the creation stories, the story of the flood the ark, are written by ignorant fools. To have 2 creatures of every living kind on the ark would take a ship the size of the state of California!
As Karl Sagan warned us, demagagues/politicians talk show hosts and evil bastards of every strip (read Koch Bros.) will take advantage of millions upon millions of "Christians" who are either ignorant of science or who are so threatened by their discoveries (Damn Floyd! Evolution goes against the teachings of God Almighty!) that they hate science and the scientific method.
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