What is death in the Bible? Is there a number that represents death, and can it be found throughout Scripture? And how does this number relate to human DNA? Romans 5:12 states, "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" Most Christians know death came as a result of sin, but why is the number twenty-three defined in the King James Bible for death? We will see in this study that there are two seed lines mentioned in the Bible, an earthy and a heavenly. One brings death the other newness of life. The number they both have in common is the number twenty-three. How is this number related to DNA? Twenty-three is what both a father and a mother contribute at the moment of conception, totaling in the human body forty-six chromosomes. But what you may not have ...