Exodus 16:29

See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Abide ye every man in his place. From this injunction it was enacted that no one should upon the Sabbath depart further from the place of his abode than the space which intervened between the Israelite camp and the tabernacle, which stood in its center. This was reckoned by the Jewish Rabbis to be 1,000 ells, which being doubled, to make allowance for the return home, amounted to much the same as the Roman mile, or 1,000 geometrical paces (Rosenmuller's 'Biblical Geography,' 1:, p. 27; Moses Stuart, 'On the Canon,' p. 61).