On Friday 03 June 2005 16:52, Philip S Hall wrote:
> I'm going to show my ignorance here but I have to share it because it
> struck me as so funny.
>
> I've seen these biblical quotes before and never understood what was meant
> by "divers weights".
>
> Surely (I thought to myself) they didn't have aqualungs in them days! Or
> did they? You never know - visions of Captain Nemo in Mysterious Island and
> his funny looking underwater breathing contraption made out of a giant sea
> shell sprang to mind :-)
They did have pearls, so maybe divers' weights were used to weigh pearls ;)
> However looking at this latest quote I decided to find out what it was. I
> came across a web site that appeared to have modern translations - then it
> dawned in me - it means *diverse* weights!!
If you read it in the Hebrew it would be a bit confusing too:
Even v'even, eyfa v'eyfa, to`evat Yahveh, gam shneyhem.
Stone and stone, basket and basket, abomination of Yahweh, even they two.
The Greek version ("A big and small balance") is clearer. At least to us IE
speakers.
phma
--
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.
