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Revision as of 13:07, 21 July 2022
The Hebrew scriptures use the language of pitching a tent to describe the sky. When Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Zechariah speak of "the heavens" being created or maintained, the sky is compared to a tent above the earth. There is no mention of the earth being a rotating globe: the earth as we see it around us is round as a circle is round, not as a ball. (See at Isaiah 44:13 — a tradesman can make it with a compass.) The sky is stretched out as a tent above it.
Consider the following passages:
- Job 9:8
- Psalm 104:2-3
- Isaiah 40:22 (also important, read literally, as the original inspiration of some modern "flat earth" beliefs)
- Isaiah 42:5
- Isaiah 44:2, 21-24
- Isaiah 45:12 — past tense, referring to the creation in the beginning
- Isaiah 48:13
- Isaiah 51:12-16
- Jeremiah 10:9-12
- Jeremiah 51:15
- Zechariah 12:1
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