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A Reed is six Common Cubits and a ⟨Hand's⟩ Breadth, which is three Inches.
A Pace is five Foot.
A Furlong is one hundred and twenty-five Paces, or forty Perch.
A Mile is one thousand Paces, or eight Furlongs; but in the Scriptures, or Hebrew, it is much ⟨as⟩ a Man can go in Half a Day, or between Meal and Meal.
Judges xx, 16 Among all the People ⟨there⟩ were seven hundred chosen Men, that were ⟨left⟩ handed, that could sling at a Hair's Breadth ⟨and⟩ not miss.
Now a Hair's Breadth is the forty-eighth ⟨Part⟩ of an Inch, twelve Inches is a foot, sixteen Foot and a Half is a Perch, forty Perches a Furlong and eight Furlongs a Mile.
A Sabbath day's Journey, according to Scripture, is six hundred Paces.
Measures mentioned in the Holy Bible.
First of Dry.
A Cab is a Quart
An Omer is a Quart and a Half
A Seath is a Gallon and a Half
An Ephath is Half a Bushel and a Pottle
Half an Homer is seven Bushels and a Quart
An Homer, or Cor, is fourteen Bushels and a Pottle.
A Chenix is by some counted three Pints five Ounces and a Half, by others a Quart.
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