the ark that was built in kentucky is at corn island.
where is the ark that was built in kentucky?
corn island
under a program enacted by the kentucky general assembly in 2010, ark encounter investors applied for economic development incentives that would allow them to recoup 25 percent of the project's construction costs by keeping a portion of the park's sales taxes during its first ten years of operation. receipt of the incentives would be contingent upon ark encounter meeting established performance goals upon opening. a press release from kentucky governor steve beshear's office cited a feasibility study commissioned by ark encounter, llc and conducted by consumer research corporation america's research group limited, inc. the company had also conducted the feasibility study for aig's ark encounter and an attitudinal survey included in ken ham's book "already gone"; arc founder c. britt beemer was credited as a co-author of the book. this projected the park could employ 900 people, attract as many as 1.6 million visitors in its first year of operation, and generate a $214 million economic impact for the region. the group selected an parcel near interstate 75 in grant county, kentucky, near the city of williamstown and about from aig's creation museum in petersburg, kentucky.
ark encounter
rabbi meir and rabbi judah differed over what the "testimony" was that god directed moses to place in the ark in rabbi meir taught that the ark contained the stone tablets and a torah scroll. rabbi judah, however, taught that the ark contained only the stone tablets, with the torah scroll placed outside. reading rabbi meir noted that the ark was 2½ cubits long, and as a standard cubit equals 6 handbreadths, the ark was thus 15 handbreadths long. rabbi meir calculated that the tablets were 6 handbreadths long, 6 wide, and 3 thick, and were placed next to each other in the ark. thus the tablets accounted for 12 handbreadths, leaving 3 handbreadths unaccounted for. rabbi meir subtracted 1 handbreadth for the two sides of the ark (½ handbreadth for each side), leaving 2 handbreadths for the torah scroll. rabbi meir deduced that a scroll was in the ark from the words of "there was nothing in the ark save the two tablets of stone that moses put there." as the words "nothing" and "save" create a limitation followed by a limitation, rabbi meir followed the rule of scriptural construction that a limitation on a limitation implies the opposite — here the presence of something not mentioned — the torah scroll. rabbi judah, however, taught that the cubit of the ark equaled only 5 handbreadths, meaning that the ark was 12½ handbreadths long. the tablets (each 6 handbreadths wide) were deposited next to each other in the ark, accounting for 12 handbreadths. there was thus left half a handbreadth, for which the two sides of the ark accounted. accounting next for width of the ark, rabbi judah calculated that the tablets took up 6 handbreadths and the sides of the ark accounted for ½ handbreadth, leaving 1 handbreadth. there rabbi judah taught were deposited the silver columns mentioned in song of songs , "king solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of lebanon, he made the pillars thereof of silver." at the side of the ark was placed the coffer that the philistines sent as a present, as reported in 1 samuel where the philistine king said, "and put the jewels of gold which you return him for a guilt offering in a coffer by the side thereof, and send it away that it may go." and on this coffer was placed the torah scroll, as says, "take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the lord," demonstrating that the scroll was placed by the side of the ark and not in it. rabbi judah interpreted the double limitation of "nothing in the ark save," to imply that the ark also contained the fragments of the first tablets that moses broke. the gemara further explained that according to rabbi judah's theory, before the philistine coffer came, the torah scroll was placed on a ledge projecting from the ark. rabbi joshua ben levi taught his children to be careful to respect an elderly scholar who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for it was said that both the whole tablets and the fragments of the tablets that moses broke were placed in the ark.
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