Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

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Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.
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Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
1636.
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Bible -- Geography -- To 1800.
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The Trauels of the Patriarch Isaac.

ISaac being young, went with his father Abra∣ham from Berzeba to mount Moriah, where his father would haue offered him vnto God, as the Lord commanded him, which is fortie miles, Gens. 22.

2 From thence with his father hee returned againe to Berzeba, which is forty miles.

3 From Berzeba he trauelled with his father to Hebron, by the plaine of Mamre, which is 16 miles.

4 From the plaine of Mamre Isaac trauelled Southward, to the fountain of life, which is 16 miles, & there he dwelt, Gen. 24.

5 From thence he returned backe again to his fathers burial, who was laid in that double caue in Mamre, which is 16 miles.

6 From thence he returned backe againe to the Well of life, where he dwelt; 16 miles.

7 From the Fountaine of life, hee went to Gerar, which is 8 miles; where Abimelech seeing the beauty of his wife Rebeccha, would haue rauisht her, and for feare she told him that she was his sister, Gen. 26.

8 From Gerar Isaac went Westward to the valley of Gerar which is 8 miles, and there he caused the Well to be digged vp

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againe, which the inhabitants had stopped vp, Gen. 26.

9 From thence he went to Beersaba, which is foure miles; where the same night the Lord appeared vnto him, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham, feare not, for I am with thee and will blesse and multiply thy seed for my seruant Abrahams sake, Gen. 26.

10 From Beersaba he returned againe to Hebron by the plain of Mamre, which is 16 miles: here Abraham, Sarah, and Rebeccha, died, and were buried, Gen. 35. So all the trauels of the Patriarch Isaac, were one hundred forty eight miles.

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