Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
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Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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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
He also smote those of Moab and measured them with a line, causing them to lie down on the ground, and he measured them with two lines, with one to put to death and the other full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's slaves, bringing presents.
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And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
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And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
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And the measuring line shall extend before him upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for his sin; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon, for it is sin.
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And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish and three tenth deals of fine flour for a present, mingled with oil, 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 measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure.
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Thou shalt not have in thy house different measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish and three tenth deals of fine flour for a present, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
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Likewise the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;
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Measures » Of length » Span
It shall be square and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
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And a man named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span, came out of the camp of the Philistines and stood between the two camps.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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The ordinance concerning the oil shall be that ye shall offer a bath of oil, which is the tenth part of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.
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Thou shalt also 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 unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden moulding to its border round about.
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Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
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And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was about sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
God understands its way, and he alone knows its place.
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To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
both for the showbread and for the fine flour for the sacrifice and for the unleavened cakes and for that which is baked in the pan and for that which is fried and for all manner of measure and size,
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is the fashion of which thou shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all come forth in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the coming of age of the Christ:
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I shall be with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; and I shall make a full end in all Gentiles among whom I scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will chastise thee with judgment and will not cut thee off altogether.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there was a great famine in Samaria as they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
Moreover a tenth ephah of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil and the fourth part of a hin of wine with each lamb.
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Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and prepared the heavens with his palm and with three fingers measured the dust of the earth and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills with weights?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore Sheol has enlarged himself and opened his mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude descended into it and their pomp and he that rejoiced in him.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
and sounded and found it twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found it fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
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