'Furlongs' in the Bible

But the boat [by this time] was already a long distance from land, tossed and battered by the waves; for the wind was against them.

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.