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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Nov 20, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 47.

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Put This in Your Bible

HERE is a handy table, which it would be well to cut out or copy for reference in your Bible studies:—
A day's journey was about twenty-three and one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile.
A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches.
A hand's breadth is equal to three and five-eighths inches.
A finger's breadth is equal to one inch.
A shekel of silver was about fifty cents.
A shekel of gold was $8.
A talent of silver was $538.30.
A talent of gold was $13,809.
A piece of silver, or a penny, was thirteen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A mite was less than a quarter of a cent.
A gerah was one cent.
An ephah, or bath, contained seven gallons and five pints.
A hin was a gallon and two pints.
An omer was six pints.—Selected.