Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he smote the Moabites, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
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And the city lies four-square, and its length is as much as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and height of it are equal.
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And he brought me thither, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a flax-cord in his hand, and a measuring-reed; and he stood in the gate.
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And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn toward Goath.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if his hand cannot attain to two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering.
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And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish, and three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, for an oblation, and one log of oil.
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Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity:
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Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish, and three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, for an oblation, and one log of oil.
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And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into his, the priest's, left hand;
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Measures » Of length » Span
Square shall it be, doubled; a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
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And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
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The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be according to the homer.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
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and the set portion of oil, by the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of a cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths are a homer;
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And thou shalt make for it a margin of a handbreadth round about, and shalt make a border of gold for the margin thereof round about.
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Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,
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And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:
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In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and for the loaves to be set in rows, and for the fine flour for the oblation, and for the unleavened cakes, and for what is baked in the pan, and for that which is saturated with oil, and for all measure of capacity and size;
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: with a lower, second, and third story shalt thou make it.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee altogether guiltless.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the one lamb a tenth part of wheaten flour mingled with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin; and a drink-offering, a fourth part of a hin of wine.
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Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whoever will compel thee to go one mile, go with him two.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
and having sounded found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther and having again sounded they found fifteen fathoms;
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.
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