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earth cannot be moved,” when we compare other passages which speak specifically of the Earth and
include this Hebrew word.

Psalms 60:2
You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it; Heal its breaches, for it is shaking [Hebrew:
mowt].

Isaiah 24:19-20
The earth is violently broken, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken [Hebrew: mowt]
exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall totter like a hut; Its
transgression shall be heavy upon it, and it will fall, and not rise again.

In the context of these verses we can understand that the Hebrew word “mowt” which our English
Bibles translate as “moved,” “shaken,” etc., describes something that trembles, that is violently
broken, that is split open, that reels to and fro like a drunkard and totters like a hut. This Hebrew
word describes something that is fallen. None of these descriptors have any bearing upon the natural
motion of the Earth in the heavens.

In many passages expressing the thought that the Earth “cannot be shaken,” we find the correlated
statement that the Earth has been “established.”

Psalms 96:10
The world also is firmly established, it shall not be moved.

What Yahweh is expressing is that there is a permanence to the Earth. It will exist until the time
appointed for its dissolution. In this sense, the Earth is sure, steadfast, and “immovable.” Yahweh
was not referring to the physical motion of the Earth in the heavens. We find a parallel when Yahweh
declares “the righteous will not be moved.” Again, this is not a reference to physical motion, but
rather to the confidence the righteous have because Yahweh supports, upholds, and protects them.
Those who are using these passages as proof texts to teach upon the movements of the planets are
failing to rightly divide the word of God.

Let us look now at those passages cited in support of the assertion that the Bible teaches that the
Earth is flat. This argument is not based on any direct statement in the Bible declaring the Earth to
be flat, but rather from numerous passages which are poetic, metaphorical, or contain allusions to
the Earth which are suggestive of a flat Earth. For example, a number of passages refer to “the pillars
of the Earth.”

I Samuel 2:8
For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.

Job 9:6
Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble...

Psalms 75:3
The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.