Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis 1994. Equidistant letter sequencing article about equidistant. The following is merely a small sample of what has now been discovered. Plot, or well retype, remove the spaces including punctuation marks and arrange the verses at 33 letters per line as shown below. Eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, statistical science. In 1994, three israeli mathematicians announced the results of an experimental analysis of equidistant letter codes in the earliest hebrew text of genesis, the first book of the torah. Oskar goldberg published a torah study entitled the pentatuch a number edifice. Gods bible code els equidistant letter spacing by rabbi. This method works well with appropriate bible version.
However, unlike the rest of this site, this page has very little information, from a field that, until about 1995, was researched by only about 10 people worldwide, all nonchristians. Since that time multitudes of other discoveries have been made. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. We conclude that the proximity of elss equidistant letter sequences with related meanings in the book of genesis is not due to chance. The journal then gave the paper, as is their standard practice, to scholars and referees who checked the experiments carefully. The only paper published in a refereed scientific journal that claims to find evidence for the reality of the bible codes is the paper equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, by doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg wrr, statistical science, vol. The basic idea behind equidistant letter sequences els also known as bible code is this. The hebrew word torah meaning law is the title rabbis use to describe the first five books of the bible, the law of moses. Apr 11, 2017 for nineteen days and nights, he had his computer carefully examine all of the 78, 604 hebrew letters in the book of genesis. The codes in the bible code are whats called equidistant letter spacing, or els. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english a touchstone book. The above is the first verse of genesis chapter 1 without any word spacing. The remarkable word patterns in the book of genesis by henry m.
Reinhold recently, the bible code, a book by michael drosnin burst on to the scene, proposing that there are hidden coded texts recording all of history in the hebrew textus receptus the masoretic text of the torah. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. In view of the findings, the bible can be viewed as a 3d hologram with the surface text as the outside layer and the hidden texts found at equidistant letter spacing els on the inside layers. To obtain an els from a text, choose a starting point in principle, any letter and a skip number, also freely and possibly negative. Very effectively promoted by simon and schuster, and including extremely aggressive claims by the author, the book has become a major topic of conversation and a source of more millennium mania, as the press likes to characterize the more bizarre topics emerging as the year 2000. Els stands for equaldistance or equidistant letter sequences. Bible codes in 1997 a theory emerged that the bible contains hidden mathematical messages. Brendan mckay 1997, physicist challenges hidden bible code nov. If the text is meaningless, there is no reason to expect such a tendency. Five substantial faults affect the wigan coalfield running nearly parallel to and equidistant from each other in the book of the xin yi xiang fa yao, published in 1092 by the chinese scientist su song, a star map on the equidistant cylindrical projection. A computer then finds hidden words, encoded at equal skips of letters. Davids genealogy is actually encoded in chronological order in genesis 38 in an equidistant letter sequence of 49 7. The discovery of significant words spelled out at equidistant skip sequences of letters in the original text of the hebrew bible is powerful evidence that the bible is a work of god rather than a work of men. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words often appear in close proximity with portions of the text which have related meaning.
Choosing preselected words and dates, a computer can quickly search the text in a unique manner. Drosnins book is based on the technique described in the paper equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis by eliyahu rips, doron witztum and yoav rosenberg of the hebrew. In 1994 the trio published a rather unassuming article, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, which detailed their discoveries from computer searches of the hebrew text of the bible. In the hebrew text of the book of genesis, if you take the first t, then count 49 letters, the next letter the 50th is o. In fact, using the principle of equidistant letter spacing, if we begin with the first yod in genesis 1. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific steganographic method became widespread in 1994 when doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg published a paper, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, in the scientific journal statistical science. Patterns of equidistant letter sequence pairs in genesis. If you take every 10th letter in a verse the resulting set of letters spells out a word or phrase. Define an equidistant letter sequence els as a sequence of letters in the text whose positions, not counting spaces, form an arithmetic progression. The mysterious equidistant letter skipping of isaiah 53.
The first documented reference to equal distant letter skips is by rabbi bachya ben asher 125540. Had this been true, it would have enhanced our reverence of the scriptures by showing, in another way, that they are of divine origin. Super computers discover mathematically coded words in the bible. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as two dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity. In the text of genesis 38, at 49letter intervals, are the names of boaz, ruth, obed, jesse, and davidin chronological order. Pdf equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis.
Use the form below to search for els codes in a block of text in any utf8 language. The relation to the text doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg. For example, a relative of mine has the name joan coombs. A paper was published in 1988 in the scholarly journal of the royal statistical society, entitled equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. The primary method by which purportedly meaningful messages have been extracted is the equidistant letter sequence els. The paper, which was presented by the journal as a challenging. In the article the authors stated, we conclude that the proximity of equidistant letter sequences with related meanings in the book of genesis is not due to chance. Take every other letter, and youll get the word top. An equidistant letter sequence, called els for short, is a sequence of equally spaced letters in the text not counting spaces and punctuation marks. One other thing that you should understand, is that the hebrew language is written from right to left, and not left to right like the english language. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, in the journal of royal statistical society. An equidistant letter sequence study has been made of genesis in which there were 60 links between code and bogus.
These names anticipate, five generations in advance, the next five generations climaxing in david, a total of ten. The inspiration for drosnins book came from the 1994 paper equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, published in the journal. In the same manner one can take the first time the hebrew letter t appears in genesis, count 49 more letters and repeat this three times the result is you spell torah,torh minus the a vowel. The hebrew text of genesis the textus receptus or masoretic text, which only the king james bible is from, all new versions use other texts was converted to a continual string of letters. In the text of genesis 38, at 49 letter intervals, are the names of boaz, ruth, obed, jesse, and davidin chronological order. Free online app to find equidistant letter sequences els codes. The remarkable word patterns in the book of genesis the. We begin with some basic definitions, the first being for equidistant letter sequence, or els for short. Using the masoretic text we find the word torah spelled out at equidistant letter skip sequences at the start of the books of genesis, exodus, numbers and deuteronomy.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read scientific authentication of the bible. In other words, after the first t, in 50 letter increments, we find the letters spelling torah. Statsci equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis we have a sample of such pairs, and we check the tendency of each pair to appear in close proximity in the text. One cited example is that by taking every 50th letter of the book of genesis starting with the first taw, the hebrew word torah is. Quantitative tools for measuring this phenomenon are developed. This article describes an experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between. Super computers discover mathematically coded words in the. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis project euclid. The written torah torah shebikhtav hebrew for christians. Various els codes are assigned until the key word is found. Torah codes are virtually synonymous with bible codes, except torah codes emphasizes the first five books of the biblethe books of moses.
Torah codes bible codes equidistant letter sequences. Torah which means the law refers to the first 5 books of the bible genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, locate the. The bible code in 1994 doron witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg published an article in the journal statistical science. Beginning with the very first verse of genesis and continuing through the bibles very last chapter, yacov rambsel has found a magnificant matrix of insights, which.
As a result of his careful research, he was forced to conclude that the codes found in the old testament through equidistant letter skipping are very real, and cannot be the result of random chance or human design. We call d the skip, n the start, and k the length of the els. The book states that codes were found in the book of genesis by. Early in the 1990s, though, three scholars, doraon witztum, eliyahu rips, and yoav rosenberg, decided to see if they could detect codes in books of the hebrew version of the bible using a scientific methodology. Of course any large text will have words or even phrases that will show up in els codes just by accident. Pdf it has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as two dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with. In the 11th or 12th century, a jewish woman in byzantium named maliha wrote to her brothers in egypt that she wanted to come visit them, but that when she looked into a torah scroll she found a bad omen forecasting failure if she were to make the journey. For nineteen days and nights, he had his computer carefully examine all of the 78, 604 hebrew letters in the book of genesis.
The paper, which was presented by the journal as a challenging puzzle, claimed to present strong. This article describes an experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between names of rabbis and their dates of birth or death in the book. The sequence of the letter positions form an arithmetic progression. Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption method became widespread in 1994 when doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg published a paper, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis in the scientific journal statistical science 1. Abd pro provides best tools and quality matrices results for bible code research. For a complete explanation of how this 4 letter els produces an amazingly accurate. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis.
Super computers discover mathematically coded words in the bible by chuck missler from his book the creator beyond time and space. Torah codes equidistant letter sequences els princess di in moby dick this illustrates why we do not accept the bible codes theory. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, statistical science, august 1994, p. Discovery of a uniformly executed numerical script. Drosnins book was a major success, and is about to be followed by its second sequel. Citeseerx equidistant letter sequences in the book of. When searched for as an equidistant letter sequence, the word appears only once in the book of genesis, at the interval of 70, clustering exactly where the word is spelled explicitly in the text, and where the calendar is established. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often. At first glance it is easy to dismiss this as just random occurrence. Statisticians call this phenomenon an els short for equidistant letter sequence.
Jan 07, 2009 the method uses a skip code commonly referred to as equidistant letter sequencing els, which requires the separation of the searchedfor letters of the key word or words by an equal number of letters. The bible code what is michael drosnins book all about. He writes of a 4 letter 42 letter skip equidistant letter sequence els beginning from the first letter of the torah that relates to the average length of the lunar month. Witztum, rips and rosenberg 4 have shown that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays with the topology of a cylinder, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with. The word hamoyadim click for hebrew text, here translated seasons, means the appointed times. Chuck missler gives an early introduction to the exciting subject of equidistant letter sequences els and hidden codes in the bible books of genesis, isaiah, and jeremiah. Instead of reading a text normallyone letter at a timehidden words are looked for by reading the text every 2, or 3, or 4, etc. What the angels aliens know that our scientists do not. Though bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by michael drosnins book the bible code. Equedistant letter sequence bibleforums christian message board. Statsciequidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. Randomization analysis shows that the effect is significant at the level of 0. Since then, theyve found that the hidden codes are throughout all the books of the tanakh, in the original.
Instead of reading a text normallyone letter at a timehidden words are. Free online app to find equidistant letter sequences els. Could it be that god has encoded a message to let it be known the idea is unreliable. The search scans the continuous hebrew letters from genesis 1. In the fourth book of the torah, the book of numbers, we discover this 49 letter interval works with hrot, that is, torh backwards. They then submitted a paper, equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis, to the prestigious quarterly, statistical science. I n this tutorial, we explain what torah codes are and what they are not. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg abstract. It has been noted that when the book of genesis is written as twodimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity.
Equidistant letter spacing els another intriguing way to discover hidden messages in the bible is using els. See figure 2 a similar 49 letter interval also appears in the fifth book the torah, the book of deuteronomy. In fact, if one is doing code research on the letter sequences of the entire hebrew biblical text, the book of jeremiah is truly the smoking gun of. Els sequential listing by ian michaels professors of mathematical scholarship at yale, harvard, and the hebrew university have discovered a phenomenon, as they call it, of equidistant letter sequences in the bible, so named because at equal skip distances, in the bible, hebrew letters spell out related meanings to the coherent text, they are embedded in. Given that the book of genesis was written well before the historical figures lived, the study seems to suggest that the names had to be encoded by. The journal spent considerable time having the findings fully tested before they published the research article. For example, chuck missler claims that the word torah. Bible code software and matrices download advanced bible. A new book by michael drosnin, the bible code, has stirred up further controversies about codes in the bible. Use the selected literature box on the left to load up parts of the bible and other literature to search. The pentatuch, or the torah, is the collection of the first five books of the bible genesis.
In reading about the bible codes, as with everything on this site, i simply ask that you keep an open mind and check out the evidence for yourself. However, it doesnt seem to work with the third book of moses, leviticus. It was entitled equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis. In 1994 israeli mathematicians eliyahu rips, doron witztum, and yoav rosenberg published some landmark articles in the journal statistical science that started the current craze. This article describes an experiment which seems to show a remarkable proximity between names of rabbis and their dates of birth or death in the book of genesis. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis doron witztum, eliyahu rips and yoav rosenberg. A computer program is available to search for words with up to 10,000 spaces between letters in the surface text. Scientists claim bible is written in code that predicts. Define an els equidistant letter sequence as a sequence of letters in the text whose positions, not counting spaces, form an arithmetic progression. I have come across a marvelous coded system in the bible that is called els. Our lord has given us more truth than we are using without having to look for some hidden meaning. As devastating as this material is to the idea of a bible code, the problem is worst in the book of jeremiah.
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