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Originally Posted by grip_daddy
At this time, it is understood that the seven day week had been in existence for thousands of years.
About the mystery of number seven (and other ancient complexities in astrology), how did man come to fathom them? The bible attributes the origin of such complex systems to the Diety,
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I just did
a wikipedia check on "week" ... places its origin in Babylon/Sumer or the earlier civilization of Egypt. Remember, the Israelites/Hebrews were slaves in these kingdoms so they picked up the cultural basis when creating theirs.
About seven (base 10, ie number of fingers on hands), think of numbers 1-9: -
* all multiples of 1 and 2 end with a digit that is wholly divisible by the respective number
* all multiples of 3, when you add the digits together, you get a number divisible by 3 (eg 6 x 8 = 48; 4 + 8 = 12 which is divisible by three)
* all multiples of 4 end with either 0, 2, 4, 8, all wholly divisible by 2. similar case for multiples of 6 and 9, ie 3. and multiples of 8, ie 2.
* all multiples of 5 end with either 5 or 0.
That covers 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9.
The number 7 is the odd man out. Try your best getting patterns and predictables, you'll go nowhere. This mystery perplexed ancient mathematicians... It was henceforth declared a "holy" number...containing the unfathomable power of gods..
Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians were incredible mathematicians, mainly as they tried to understand outer space (astrology, astronomy)...
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