The Science in the Bible

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A Corridor on Dry Ground

The passage gives a crossing on dry ground, completed within a night, with water standing on both sides. It gives no width, no length and no depth. Seven parameters below are supplied by the author.

Reference: Exodus 14:21–29 · party size from Exodus 12:37–38

Every value in the left-hand panel is an assumption, not a reading. The passage supplies none of them. The defaults are the working values printed in the book; the sensitivity tables below show what happens when you move them.