Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/144 - Biblical Arithmetic

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 * Biblical Arithmetic
 * If you multiply the number of 's sons by the number of times which the compassed  on the seventh day,
 * and add to the product the number of measures of barley which gave ,
 * divide this by the number of 's sons,
 * subtract the number of each kind of clean beasts that went into the ,
 * multiply by the number of men that went to seek after he was taken to ,
 * subtract from this 's age at the time he stood before ,
 * add the number of stones in 's bag when he killed ,
 * subtract the number of furlongs that was distant from ,
 * divide by the number of anchors cast out when was shipwrecked,
 * subtract the number of persons saved in the ,
 * and the answer will be the number of pupils in a certain Sunday school class.


 * How many people in the class?