Editing Bible code (section)

===Extensions===

Once a specific word has been found using the ELS method, other words are sought based on the same letter spacing.<ref>Shak, Moshe Aharon. 2004. ''Bible Codes Breakthrough''. Montreal: Green Shoelace Books. 38</ref> Code proponents Haralick and Rips have published an example of a longer, extended ELS, which reads, "Destruction I will call you; cursed is Bin Laden and revenge is to the Messiah".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haralick |first1=Robert M. |last2=Rips |first2=Eliyahu |last3=Glazerson |first3=Matiyahu |title=Torah Codes: A Glimpse into the Infinite |publisher=Mazal & Bracha Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=0-9740493-9-5 |page=125}}</ref>

Proponents claim that such ELS extensions that form phrases or sentences have statistical significance, maintaining that the longer the extended ELS, the less likely it is to be the result of chance.<ref>Sherman, R. Edwin, with Jacobi and Swaney. 2005. ''Bible Code Bombshell'' Green Forest, Ar.: New Leaf Press. 95–109</ref> Critics reply, as in the ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' deconstruction of 1997,<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/hidden_messages_and_the_bible_code |title=Hidden Messages and The Bible Code |date=1997-11-01 |first=Dave |last=Thomas |journal=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |publisher=[[CSICOP]] |access-date=2015-04-19}}</ref> that the longer ELS is in fact effectively nothing more than further increased number of permutations, employing a massive application of the [[look-elsewhere effect]].