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Sabbath-Day's Journey

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Sabbath-Day's Journey (), the distance which the Jews were permitted to journey from and return to their places of residence upon the Sabbath-day (). 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.

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Sabbath-Day's Journey'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​s/sabbath-days-journey.html.