Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Biblical Item. [ARTICLE]

Biblical Item.

The Sabbath day's journey of the Jews was 2,000 yards, the traditional distance from the end of the Ark of the Covenant to the farther side' of the Israelites’ camp, where tiiey had made a stop in the wilderness, the point where the Sabbatical law was given.