# Cool Math Thing in the Bible

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> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> It’s the parallelism I find neat. It’s like the verse is winking at us, saying that just like we know the verse means KV when it says KVH, we also know it means 3.1416 when it says 3. There’s no other obvious reason for the superfluous H to exist.

This seems like a good place to point out that in the Hebrew text of Exodus 8, it says “frog” instead of “frogs”, which prompted Talmudic scholars to debate whether or not Moses had God unleash one really big frog that wreaked havoc on Egypt’s crops, which in turn prompted a metaphorical argument about the Bar Kochba rebellion. Sometimes the Bible is just weird like that.

> **[Frog or Frogs?](https://sephardicu.com/midrash/frog-or-frogs/)**
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> Messianic Wars in Midrash – Parashat VaEra In Exodus 8:2 we read of the second plague of Egypt, frogs: ותעל הצפרדע ותכס את ארץ מצרים. The literal translation of these words is: The frog \[singular\] came up and covered the land of Egypt. The use of the...

(This counts as my one post for this week. Hi, everybody!)

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