Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
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Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
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The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, - a great and a small.
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Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
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Balances of righteousness, and an ephah of righteousness, and A bath of righteousness, have ye:
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line casting, them down to the ground, and be measured with two lines to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive, - so the Moabites became David's, as servants, bringing gifts.
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And, the city, four-square, lieth, 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 when he brought me thither, then lo! a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a flax-cord in his hand and measuring reed, - and he was standing in the gate.
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Then shall go forth again the measuring-line straight forward, Over the hill Gareb, And it shall go round to Goah;
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if his hand cannot lay hold of two turtledove, or two young pigeons, then shall he bring in as his oblation - because he hath sinned - the tenth of an ephah of fine meal for bearing sin, - he shall not put thereon oil, neither shall he lay thereon frankincense, for a sin-bearer, it is.
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And, on the eighth day, he shall take two he-lambs, without defect, and one ewe-lamb, the choice of its year without defect, - and three-tenths of fine meal for a meal-offering, overflowed with oil, and one log of oil.
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Now, an omer, is, the tenth of the ephah.
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, - in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity:
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Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, - a great and a small. A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And, on the eighth day, he shall take two he-lambs, without defect, and one ewe-lamb, the choice of its year without defect, - and three-tenths of fine meal for a meal-offering, overflowed with oil, and one log of oil.
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and the priest shall take of the log of oil, - and shall pour it upon the palm of the priest's left hand,
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Measures » Of length » Span
Four-square, shall it be double, - a span the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof.
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And there came forth a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath, his name, from Gath, - his height, six cubits and a span;
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield one bath, - And the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah,
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the ephah and the bath of one fixed measure, shall be, to contain the tenth of a homer, the bath, - and the tenth of a homer, the ephah, unto the homer, shall be the proportion thereof;
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield one bath, - And the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah,
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And the statutory portion of oil shall be - per bath for oil - a tenth part of a bath out of a cot, 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
And he said unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:
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and water by measure, shalt thou drink 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 thereto a border of a handbreadth, round about, - and shalt make a rim of gold to the border thereof, round about;
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Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
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And lo! two from among them, on the selfsame day, were journeying unto a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which, was 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, discerneth the place thereof;
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Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and for the bread set in array, and for the fine meal for the meal-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, even for that which is baked in a pan, for the moistened food, - even of every measure, and size;
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And, this, is how thou shalt make it, - three hundred cubits, the length of the ark, fifty cubits, the breadth thereof, and thirty cubits the height thereof. A place for light, shalt thou make to the ark and to a cubit, shalt thou finish it upwards, and the opening of the ark - in the side thereof, shalt thou put, - with lower, second and third stories, shalt thou make it.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For with thee, am, I, Declareth Yahweh To save thee, - Though I make an end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, Yet will I not of thee, make an end, But will chastise thee in measure, not holding thee, guiltless!
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there came to be, a great famine, in Samaria, and lo! they continued the siege against it, - until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one pint of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
and a tenth part of fine meal mingled with a fourth part of the hin of beaten oil, and, as a drink-offering, a fourth part of the hin of wine, - with the one lamb.
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Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or the hills, in a balance?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And, whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two:
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore, hath hades enlarged her desire, And opened her mouth to its widest, - And their glory, and their multitude and their pomp. and he that is uproarious shall descend thereinto.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
Let me know, O Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days - what it is, I would know how short-lived I am.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
and, sounding, they found twenty fathoms, - and, going a little further, and again sounding, they found fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness, - and the scant measure - accurst?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were there, six stone water-vessels, placed, according to the purification of the Jews; holding each, two or three measures.
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