16
The city is square. Its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
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Verse 16. The city is situate four-square; [1] and by what follows, so as to be a perfect square, though every thing that is quadrangular is not always a square, or perfect square. Witham.
12,012 stadia = 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia.
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