Day's journey
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day-s-journey-316-1991867
title:
Day's journey
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A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible, ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers. Judges 19 records a party of three people and two mules who traveled from Bethlehem to Gibeah, a distance of about 10 miles, in an afternoon. Porter notes that a mule can travel about 3 miles per hour, c
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Nonstandard measurement of distance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%27s_journey
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2024-04-17T04:07:58Z
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