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Ten Commandments
81
whether they contain the so-called
Pythagorean
numbers 3, 4, and 5.35) This is the case,
if the
tablets are placed side by side
next to each other,
because their length is
3 half-cubits, their com-
bined width
is 4 half-cubits, and the diagonal
of the
combined rectangle is 5 half-cubits, which
is the length of the box.36) These measurements
also
provide an easy method for dividing a
cubit
into ten equal parts explaining
why there are
10 vertical and 15
horizontal lines.37)
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35) The squares of 3 and 4 (9
plus 16) are 25, which
is 5
times 5, the only instance
of whole numbers under ten
making
up a right
triangle. The next
such combination is
5, 12,
and 13. Knowing the
combination 3, 4, and 5
– like
that of a safe – is
knowing the secret of the Pythagorean
theorem.
Pythagoras owed his theories to
the Jews, cf. Ed Metzler, Mosaical
Metrology (N. 9) Note 16.
36) This geometrical know-how is not
surprising, if the
people of Israel were
the pyramid builders, as Josephus
Flavius,
Jewish Antiquities, II, 9, writes,
cf. Ed Metzler, Mosaical Metrology
(N. 9)
Notes 14 and 54. The Exodus brought
about the end of
the pyramid
age: Departing from Fayoum
(Pithom), where the
last
pyramids were built, the people of Israel
had to reach the
Red Sea
when heading eastward for the
Sinai, which is not
the
case, if the
point of departure were
farther northward
near the Nile
delta.
37) A pyramid measuring 2.5 cubits in
height as well as
at the base divides
the cubit at the top edge of the
Tablets of
the Law into 10 equal
parts, and a hexagram of two such
pyramids
helps to draw the
10 lines, cf. TORAH OF THE
ALPHABET
(N. 1) pp. 8 and 113.
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