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Tables of Time, Measures, Weights, Etc

A Table of Measures

• A Cubit, somewhat more than one foot nine inches English.
• A Span, half a cubit, or nearly eleven inches.
• A Hand-breadth, sixth part of a cubit, or a little more than three inches and a half.
• A Fathom, four cubits, about seven feet and three inches and a half.
• A Measuring Reed, six cubits and a hand-breadth, or nearly eleven feet. The was used in measuring buildings.
• A Measuring Line, fourscore cubits, about one hundred and forty-five feet eleven inches. This was used to measure grounds; hence the lines (Psalm 16:6) are taken figuratively for the inheritance itself.

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• A Stadium, or Furlong, nearly 146 paces .
• A Sabbath Day's Journey, about 729 paces.
• An Eastern Mile, one mile and 403 paces, English measure.
• A Day's Journey, upwards of thirty-three miles and a half.
• NOTE.—A pace is equal to five feet.
• There were different kinds of cubits. The common cubit, called the cubit of a man, was about eighteen inches (Deut. 3:11). The king's cubit was three inches longer than the common one. The holy cubit was a yard, or two common ones.

A Table of Weights

• A Shekel, nearly half an ounce, Troy weight.
• A Maneh, sixty shekels, about two pounds and a quarter.
• A Talent, three thousand shekels, or 113 pounds, and upwards of ten ounces.

A Table of Money

A Shekel of Gold, worth about	$8.75
A Golden Daric, about	5.24
A Talent of Gold, about	26,280.00
A Shekel of Silver, about	.55
A Bekah, half a shekel, about	.28
A Gerah, twentieth part of a shekel	.25
A Maneh, or Mina, fifty shekels	27.32
A Talent of Silver, 3000 shekels, about	1,639.30
A Silver Drachma, about	.16
Tribute Money, two drachmas	.31
A Piece of Silver (Stater)	.62
A Pound (Mornai), 100 drachmas	15.50
A Roman Penny (Denarius)	.16
A Farthing (Assarium), about	.03
Another Farthing (Quadrans), half the former
A Mite, the half of this latter