And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?