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Originally posted by TheOne:
If you have free time on your hands get a copy of Torah (five books of Moses, aka Old Testament) writen in Hebrew and do a little experiment. Open up first book, Genesis. Staring at the begining of the book look for the first time hebrew letter "Tav" appears in the text (you can get hebrew alphabet on the internet). That letter "Tav" should appear at the end of first word - "Bereshit" (heb. In the beggining of). From that letter count fifty letters, the fiftieth letter will be letter "Vav", count another fifty letters, the fiftieth will be letter "Resh", one more time count fifty letters and you'll find letter "Heh".
If you put these letters together it will spell out word "Torah". Coincidence? Maybe. Now open second book, Exodus. Do the same thing, first "Tav" in the text and fifty letter sequences. You'll arrive at the same result, word "Torah". Another coincidence? maybe.
Do the same for the rest three books and see for yourself that each of five books will give you same results. All of them containing word "Torah" in same sequence after first letter "Tav".
I'm game. I just happen to have a Hebrew Torah on hand (Koren edition). You can download one for yourself at
Brendan McKay's site.
The effect you claim works for Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, but not Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Can you explain the theological significance of this? I humbly propose this means that Leviticus and Deuteronomy are disproven as legitimate parts of the divine Torah.
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Now if you have some more time, figure out probablity of this happening by randomness. Keep in mind that complete Torah has 305,408 characters in it. What is the probabily of the same sequence happening at BEGINING of each book with the SAME sequence after EACH letter? There are a lot of very smart people out here, I'm sure you can come up with the answer.
Sure; same answer that is given for the original codes nonsense. The rules for this game are somewhat arbitrary. Hence calculating probabilities after the fact is meaningless. You could have chosen other words (God, Jesus, Creator, etc) or other numbers (30, 45, etc) or other means of obtaining your pattern (first letter of every tenth word, etc).
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