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1 | How long is a Sabbath day walk? | Acts 1:12 | DocTrinsograce | 243114 | ||
Hi, Well... The Sabbath to the Jew would be from Sunset Friday through Sunset Saturday. A Sabbath day's journey would have been about seven furlongs (about 8.75 miles). Joshua 3:4 describes it as two thousand cubits. That would make sense, since by the Mosaic Law. The normal mode of transportation was riding upon an ass. That was prohibited on the Sabbath. Interestingly enough, riding a horse on the Sabbath was permissible. (Of course, there were few of them because of the cost of their upkeep.) Nonetheless, even riding a horse was not allowed to exceed the two thousand cubits mentioned above. In Him, Doc |
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2 | How long is a Sabbath day walk? | Acts 1:12 | ipl | 243120 | ||
The book of Joshua does not mention the Sabbath by name. It must have been one of the seven days that Jericho was to be marched around. Josh 3:4 does not set the limit on how far someone is to travel somewhere. It is setting the minimum distance to stay behind the ark of the covenant when it is moved. | ||||||
3 | How long is a Sabbath day walk? | Acts 1:12 | DocTrinsograce | 243121 | ||
Yeah, but Talmudic thinking isn't the same as Western thinking. Meh. |
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