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(1.) a day’s journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Numbers 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day’s journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the distance one might travel without violating the law of Exodus 16:29. (See SABBATH.)

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