Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
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Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
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"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
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The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.
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When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.
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And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
"But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
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"And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
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(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
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You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
"And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
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Then 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 doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth.
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And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion 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 but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."
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The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."
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and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths).
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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 supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
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And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.
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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,
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That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
"God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
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When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.
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 mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an 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 a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth 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 marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed 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 if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
"O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
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