In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet<n id="1" /> wide at a distance of 1¾ feet,<n id="2" /> and their entrances were on the north.

So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the <sc>Lordsc> had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city<n id="1" /> &#8211; it required three days to walk through it!)<n id="2" />

When Jonah began to enter the city one day&#8217;s walk, he announced, &#8220;At the end of forty days,<n id="1" /> Nineveh will be overthrown!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Then the king, with his consort<n id="1" /> sitting beside him, replied, &#8220;How long would your trip take, and when would you return?&#8221; Since the king was amenable to dispatching me,<n id="2" /> I gave him a time.