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	The Dead Sea
RELATED TOPICS	Dead Sea Scrolls;
SERMONS, ESSAYS AND OPINIONS	* Easton's Bible Dictionary entry on Dead Sea;
CONTENTS	Contents 1 Quotes; 2 Links;

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The Dead Sea is an inland sea in the Middle East.

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-The name given by [[Greek]] writers of the second century to that inland sea called in [[Scripture]] the "salt sea" (Gen.14:3; Num.34:12), the "sea of the plain" (Deut.3:17), the "east sea" (Ezek.47:18; Joel 2:20), and simply "the sea" (Ezek.47:8). The Arabs call it Bahr Lut, i.e; the sea of Lot. It lies about 16 miles in a straight line to the east of [[Jerusalem]]. Its surface is 1,292 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. It covers an area of about 300 square miles. Its depth varies from 1,310 to 11 feet. It is about 53 miles long, and of an average breadth of 10 miles. It has no outlet, the great heat of that region causing such rapid evaporation that its average depth, notwithstanding the rivers that run into it, is maintained with little variation.
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-The waters of the Dead Sea contain 24.6 percent, of mineral salts, about seven times as much as in ordinary sea-water; thus they are unusually buoyant. Cloride of magnesium is most abundant; next to that cloride of sodium (common salt). Nothing living can exist in this sea.
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+The Dead Sea is an inland sea in the Middle East.
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The Dead Sea
RELATED TOPICS	Dead Sea Scrolls
SERMONS, ESSAYS AND OPINIONS	* Easton's Bible Dictionary entry on Dead Sea
CONTENTS	Contents 1 Quotes 2 Links