Sabbath-day's Journey

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Sabbath-day's Journey. Act_1:12. The law, as regards travel on the Sabbath, is found in Exo_16:29. As some departure from a man's own place was unavoidable, it was thought necessary to determine the allowable amount, which was fixed at 2000 paces, or about six furlongs from the wall of the city. The permitted distance seems to have been grounded on the space to be kept between the Ark and the people, Jos_3:4, in the wilderness, which tradition said was that between the Ark and the tents. We find the same distance given, as the circumference outside the walls of the Levitical cities, to be counted as their suburbs. Num_33:5 The terminus a quo was, thus, not a man's own house, but the wall of the city where he dwelt.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

Sabbath-Day's Journey (Act_1:12), the distance which the Jews were permitted to journey from and return to their places of residence upon the Sabbath-day (Exo_16:29). There is some diversity of sentiment with respect to the precise distance indicated. But taking all circumstances into account, it seems likely that the ordinary Sabbath-day's journey was a somewhat loosely determined distance, seldom more than the whole and seldom less than three-quarters of a geographical mile.




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.

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