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Definition of Bible Terms

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 6.

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Definition of Bible Terms.

A day's journey was thirty-three and one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet, nearly.
A cubic is twenty-two inches, nearly.
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 $8.09.
A talent of silver was $538.32.
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, contains seven gallons and five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A firkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints.