Thematic Bible: Of length


Thematic Bible



Four-square, shall it be double, - a span the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof.

And there came forth a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath, his name, from Gath, - his height, six cubits and a span;


and thou shalt make thereto a border of a handbreadth, round about, - and shalt make a rim of gold to the border thereof, round about;

Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.


Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;

And lo! two from among them, on the selfsame day, were journeying unto a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which, was Emmaus;


And, this, is how thou shalt make it, - three hundred cubits, the length of the ark, fifty cubits, the breadth thereof, and thirty cubits the height thereof. A place for light, shalt thou make to the ark and to a cubit, shalt thou finish it upwards, and the opening of the ark - in the side thereof, shalt thou put, - with lower, second and third stories, shalt thou make it.


And, whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two:


and, sounding, they found twenty fathoms, - and, going a little further, and again sounding, they found fifteen fathoms.