Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to 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
And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lay down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
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And the city lies foursquare, and the length of it is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs, the length and the breadth and the height of it being 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 go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if his means is not sufficient for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his oblation for that by which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering. He shall put no oil upon
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And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, 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 measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
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Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which 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 a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
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And the priest shall take 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 foursquare [and] double, a span shall be the length of it, and a span the breadth of it.
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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.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] 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 a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer. The measure of it shall be according to the homer.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
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and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer, (for ten baths are a homer),
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay,
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And thou shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Thou shall drink from time to time.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And thou shall make to it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shall make a golden crown to the border of it round about.
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Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs away from it,
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And behold, two of them were going the same day to a village that was sixty furlongs away from Jerusalem, which name was Emmaus.
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
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to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
for the showbread, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size.
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is how thou shall make it: The length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. Thou shall make a light for the ark, and thou shall finish it to a cubit upward. And thou shall set the door of the ark in the side of it, with lower, second, and third stories thou shall make it.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with thee, says LORD, to save thee. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee. But I will correct thee in measure, and will in no way leave thee unpun
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the one lamb a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.
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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 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?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whoever will draft thee for one mile, go thou with him two.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend [into it].
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou have 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
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
And having tossed lead, they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and having tossed lead again, 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 a scant measure that is abominable?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six stone water pots laying there in accordance with the purification of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.
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