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TABLE VI.
MEASURES OF LENGTH.
| Inch. Meas. |
Foot Meas. | ||
| A cubit is equal to | 21.888 | = | 1.824 |
| A span the longer, equal to half a cubit, | 10.944 | = | .912 |
| Span the less, equal to one-third of a cubit, | 7.296 | = | .608 |
| A hand's breadth, equal to one-sixth of a cubit, | 3.684 | = | .304 |
| A finger's breadth, equal to one-twenty-fourth of a cubit, | 912 | = | .076 |
| Measures of many cubits length are expressed only in foot measure. | |||
| Feet Dec. | |||
| A fathom, equal to | 4 cubits | = | 7.296 |
| Ezekiel's reed, | 6 cubits | = | 10.944 |
| Schoenus, the Egyptian line for land measure, which we think the Scripture uses to divide the inheritances. Psalm xvi. 6. and lxxviii. 55. They used different lengths, but the shortest and most useful was CUBITS. | 80 | = | 145.92 |
| Herodotus mentions a schoenus just 300 times as long: I judge that all the greater were made in proportion to the least:-- | |||
| The mile, equal to | 4000 cubits | = | 7296 feet. |
| Stadium, one-tenth of their mile, | 400 cubits | = | 729.6 |
| Parasang, three of their miles, | 12000 cubits | = | 4 English |
| miles, and 580 feet. | |||
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