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 # Each long cubit was a cubit and a handbreadth in length
 
-Each "long cubit" was about 54 centimeters. You may choose not to include this information if you give modern measurements instead of "cubits" as the UDB does. Alternate translation: "These were the long cubits, which were the length of a regular cubit plus a handbreadth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bdistance]])
+"These were the long cubits, which were the length of a regular cubit plus a handbreadth". Each "long cubit" was about 54 centimeters.
 
 # a handbreadth
 
-"the width of a hand." This was about 8 centimeters. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bdistance]])
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+"the width of a hand." This was about 8 centimeters.
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