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Mile

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

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The Hebrews did not measure by the mile, but by the cubit. Our translators of the Bible have, however, very properly, rendered the measurement by the English standard; so that a mile, in our language, corresponds to two thousand cubits, and a furlong is the eighth part of a mile.

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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Mile'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​pmd/​m/mile.html. London. 1828.
 
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