The measures. — The city itself is to be an exact square of 4,500 reeds, and according to Ezekiel 48:17, was to have “suburbs,” or rather an open space on all sides of 250 reeds. The whole was, therefore, 5,000 reeds — a little less than ten miles — square, the exact width of the space that was left of the oblation, and leaving 10,000 reeds on each side of it.

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