name of Rabbi Yochanan, " These are the sixty myriads of cities which King Yannai (Jatmaeus) possessed on the royal mount. The population of each equalled the number that went up out of Egypt, except that of three cities in which that number was doubled. And these three cities were Caphar Bish (literally, the village of evil), so called because there was no hospice for the reception of strangers therein; Caphar Shichlaiim (village of water-cresses), so called because it was chiefly on that herb that the people subsisted; Caphar Dichraya (the village of male children), so called, says Rabbi Yochanan, because its women first gave birth to boys, and afterward to girls, and then left off bearing.8 Ulla said, " I have seen that place, and am sure that it could not hold sixty myriads of sticks.
A Sadducee upon this said to Rabbi Chanina, "Ye do not speak the truth." The response was, " It is written (Jer. iii. 19), lThe inheritance of a deer,* as the skin of a deer, unoccupied by the body of the animal, shrinks, so also the land of Israel, unoccupied by its rightful owners, became contracted.