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Updated: May 13, 2025
Moses did not see clearly in the misty morning, for there was no wall, but only the giant Og who sat upon the wall with his feet touching the ground below. Considering Og's enormous stature, Moses' mistake was pardonable, for as a grave-digger of later times related, Og's thigh-bone alone measured more than three parasangs.
At a distance of nine hundred and sixty-five parasangs from the fish he alighted on dry land. These miracles induced the ship's crew to abandon idolatry, and they all became pious proselytes in Jerusalem. Jonah went straightway to Nineveh, the monster city covering forty square parasangs and containing a million and half of human beings.
I will rise at once and walk forth alone and divert myself and digest what I have eaten." So I donned my richest clothes and went out a-walking in Bassora. Now it is known to thee, O Commander of the Faithful, that it hath seventy streets, each seventy parasangs long of Irak measure; and I lost myself in its by-streets and thirst overcame me.
Upon it is a cupola resting on four columns, and all the Jews that pass by carve their names upon the stones of the pillar . At Bethlehem there are two Jewish dyers. It is a land of brooks of water, and contains wells and fountains. At a distance of six parasangs is St.
I went every day at a set hour to make my court to the king, and spent the rest of my time in viewing the city, and what was most worthy of notice. The isle of Serendib is situated just under the equinoctial line; so that the days and nights there are always of twelve hours each, and the island is eighty parasangs in length, and as many in breadth.
A stream runs in front of it, called the brook of Kedumim . About 200 Jews live there, at their head being R. Zadok, R. Japheth, and R. Jonah. From there it is three parasangs to Haifa, which is Hahepher on the seaboard, and on the other side is Mount Carmel , at the foot of which there are many Jewish graves.
Artaban must indeed ride wisely and well if he would keep the appointed hour with the other Magi; for the route was a hundred and fifty parasangs, and fifteen was the utmost that he could travel in a day. But he knew Vasda's strength, and pushed forward without anxiety, making the fixed distance every day, though he must travel late into the night, and in the morning long before sunrise.
From Montpellier it is four parasangs to Lunel, in which there is a congregation of Israelites, who study the Law day and night.
Snatching up Solomon, who had parted with his protecting ring, he flung him four hundred parasangs away from Jerusalem, and then palmed himself off as the king. Banished from his home, deprived of his realm, Solomon wandered about in far-off lands, among strangers, begging his daily bread.
In the midst of the city there is a well, which they call Bir Abraham; this the Patriarch dug in the days of the Philistines . From there it is a journey of a day to St. George of Ludd: thence it is a day and a half to Zerin or Jezreel, where there is a large spring. One Jewish dyer lives here. Three parasangs further is Saffuriya or Sepphoris.
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