Brewer's: Journey

A Sabbath-day's journey. The distance between the farthest tents in the wilderness and the tabernacle of Moses, a radius of about a mile; this would make the entire encampment to cover a circumference of six miles.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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