Who was put to death by a plague? What's the shortest verse? 446 pages of Bible prize questions, enigmas and curiosities that Victorian Sunday schools competed over.

Reduced to English Wine Measure

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Reduced to English Wine Measure

A caph 16 32 1.3 A log. 5.3- = 12- 4 = A cab 21= 723 = 16 = I2 = 3 = A hin 6 = 13- 32 = 21 = 6 = 2 = A seah 6= 96 960 3 = A bath, ephah, or…

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