2,000 cubits of distance from the Ark.
2,000 demon possessed swine.
Adding in, so perhaps someone will find something new here:
United States of America [ארצות הברית של אמריקה ] = 2000
The Torah begins with an enlarged letter bet (meaning "house"), literally a big bet, which is a "big house", idiomatic for a prison. In the beginning:
בראשית
"Big house" is also the meaning of the word Pharaoh. Egypt, aka the "house of bondage", 🤔.
The sense of the word suggests that it functioned as a metonym, as "White House" is a metonym for the executive branch.
The single-value letters are also used to represent thousands, as in years. A geresh (') is added to mark the usage. A bet (= 2) can then become a "big" bet (= 2000):
'ב
In Hebrew, the United States [ארצות הברית] -- artzot habrit, lit. lands of the covenant -- is abbreviated as ארה"ב, using the first two letters of each word, a typical pattern when the first letter of the second word is a prefix. It's the common form for writing the name. The acronym isn't pronounced as its own word (like say, "NASA"), so to see it is to read "Artzot HaBrit".
If an abbreviation were to be created for the Ark of the Covenant [ארון הברית] -- aron habrit -- the result word be ארה"ב
Could you just imagine if that happened? Readers would come upon the Ark of the Covenant and automatically recognize it as the United States.
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Acronyms... what would the US Government do without them? There are acronyms for acronyms. Alphabet soup! People joke. The military is the worst. Easy to get lost and disoriented in the vast US government storehouse of acronyms.
Well, it's like what everyone already knows about the extremes of all that is weird, wonderful, and seemingly impossible on this home planet...
"Only in America"
Jay and the Americans
Only in America
could a dream like this come true
could I guy like me start with nothing
and end up with you.
A lot of people are sure going to wish that they took but a few seconds to find a little something nice to say or see, instead of feasting on and regurgitating darkness all day every day.
As if people really need to be told.
Moriarty passed away in 2021. Seems like many have missed the memo.
Joshua 3There's a first time for everything..1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
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