Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
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Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
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A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
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"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.
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Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
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[There] shall be for you {an honest set of scales} and {an honest ephah} and {an honest bath}.
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and {the third cord} to let live. So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute.
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And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as [its] width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia; the length and the width and the height of it are equal.
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And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose appearance [was] like [the] appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen [was] in his hand and a reed for measurement; [he] was standing in the gate.
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And {the measuring line} will still go out immediately in front [of] it to the hill of Gareb, and it will 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 {young doves}, then, because he has sinned, he shall bring [as] his offering a tenth of an ephah [of] finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it [is] a sin offering.
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"And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb {in its first year} without defect and three-tenths [of an ephah] of finely milled flour mixed with oil [as] a grain offering and one log of oil.
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(And an omer [is] a tenth of an ephah.)
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume.
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There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}. [Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
"And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb {in its first year} without defect and three-tenths [of an ephah] of finely milled flour mixed with oil [as] a grain offering and one log of oil.
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And the priest shall take {some of} the log of oil, and he shall pour [it] on his left palm;
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Measures » Of length » Span
It will be squared, doubled, a span its length and a span its width.
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Then {a champion} went out from the camps of [the] Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His 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 [the] seed of a homer will yield an ephah.
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The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement; the tenth part of the homer [is] the bath, and the tenth of the homer [is] the ephah; [so] the homer shall be its unit of measurement.
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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 a homer will yield an ephah.
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And the quota of the olive oil, the bath [of] the olive oil, [is] the tenth part of a bath from a kor, [which] [is] ten baths, [or] a homer--for ten baths [are equal to] a homer.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror,
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And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it].
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around.
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Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.
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And behold, on [that] same day, two of them were traveling to a village {named} Emmaus [that was] sixty stadia distant 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 knows its place,
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{When he gave} weight to the wind and he apportioned [the] waters by measure,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements.
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this [is] how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits. You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}. And [as for] the door of the ark, you must put [it] in its side. You must make it [with] a lower, second, and a third [deck].
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all reach the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to a measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ,
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.'
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege [was] against it, until the head of a donkey [went] for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves [went] for five shekels of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first 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 marked off [the] heavens with span, comprehended the dust of the earth in third of a measure and weighed out [the] mountains in the scales, and [the] hills in a balance?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whoever forces you 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 has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I [am]."
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
And taking soundings, they found twenty fathoms. So going on a little [further] and taking soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.
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