New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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| span | cubit | rod note |
| span | 1 | .. | .. |
| cubit | 2 | 1 | .. |
| rod note | 12 | 6 | 1 |
The ‘short cubit’ (Judg. 3. 16) was traditionally the measure from the
elbow to the knuckles of the closed fist; and what seems to be intended
as a ‘long cubit’ measured a ‘cubit and a hand-breadth’, i.e. 7 instead
of 6 hand-breadths (Ezek. 40. 5). What is meant by cubits ‘according
to the old standard of measurement’ (2 Chr. 3. 3) is presumably this
pre-exilic cubit of 7 hand-breadths. Modern estimates of the Hebrew
cubit range from 12 to 25.2 inches, without allowing for varying local
standards.
Area was measured by the ‘yoke’ (Isa. 5. 10), i.e. that ploughed by a
pair of oxen in one day, said to be half an acre now in Palestine, though
varying in different places with the nature of the land.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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