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 wicked 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 Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A 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 diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an 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 Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to 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 servants to David, and brought tribute.
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And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof 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 thereof 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 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 unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his oblation for that wherein he hath sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any 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 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 shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which 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 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
Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
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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 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 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 unto 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 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 unto it a border of a handbreadth round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
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Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
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And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem.
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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 the place thereof.
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To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
for the showbread also, 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 shalt make it: the length of the ark 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 shalt thou finish it upward; 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
till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of 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, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an 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 sold for fourscore 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 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?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whosoever shall 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 Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it .
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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
Jehovah, make me to know mine 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 they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and 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 waterpots of stone set there after the Jews manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece.
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