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( 19 ) Meaſures mentioned in the Scriptures of Truth:

Here are divers kind of Cubits; 1 The Common Cubit was from the Elboe to the long end, or a foot and a half, or half a yard. The Kings Çubit one and twenty inches or a breadth more than the common. 3. The of the Sanctuary, contains two of the, being a full yard. 4. The Geometrical Cubit ix common Cubits, which is three Yards:  to this Cubit it's thought Noah's Ark  built. A Reed is ſix common cubits & a hand, which is 3 inches. A Pace is 5 foot; A 125 paces, or 40 Perch. A mile is 1000 or 8 Furlongs, but in the Scripture or Hebrew,  much as a man can go in half a day, or  meal and meal. Judges 20. 16. Among all People, there were 700 choſen men that could ſling, at hair breadth and not miſs. Now a hairs breadth is 48 part of an inch, 12 inches is a foot. 16 foot a half is a Perch, 40 Perch is a Furlong, 8  is a Mile, A Sabbath days journey,  to Scripture, is 600 Paces.

Meaſures mentioned in the Bible: Firſt of Dry:

Cab is a Quart, An Homer is a Quart and a half, a Seath is a Gallon and a half, an Ephath is a Buſhel and a Pottle, half an Homer is 7 Buſhels  a Quart, an Homer or Cor is 14 Buſhels and a, a Chenix by ſome is counted three pints five  and & half, by others a Quart. Rh