Thematic Bible: Measures
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Measures » Just weights
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
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A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small:
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Ye shall have a true weight, and a true Ephah, and a true Bath.
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he beat the Moabites and measured them with a line, making them lie along the earth; so that he brought two parts of them to death, and let one part live. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and paid tribute.
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And the city was built four square, and the length was as large as the breadth of it, and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs: and the length, and the breadth, and the height of it, were equal.
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Thither he carried me, and behold, there was a man, whose similitude was like brass, which had a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring rod also. He stood in the door,
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From thence shall the right measure be taken before her unto the hill top of Gareb, and shall come about Golgotha
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
"'And yet if he be not able to bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons, then let him bring his offering for his sin: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, but put none oil thereto neither put any frankincense thereon, for it is a sin offering.
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And when the eighth day is come, let him take two lambs without blemish and a ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering mingled with oil, and a log of oil.
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and a gomer 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, neither in meteyard, weight or measure.
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neither shalt thou have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And when the eighth day is come, let him take two lambs without blemish and a ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering mingled with oil, and a log of oil.
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Then let the priest take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his left hand,
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Measures » Of length » Span
Foursquare it shall be and double, a hand breadth long and a hand breadth broad.
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And then came a man and stood in the midst, out of the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: six cubits and a handbreadth long,
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.
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The Ephah and the Bath shall be alike. One Bath shall contain the tenth part of a Homer, and so shall one Ephah do: their measure shall be after the Homer.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.
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The oil shall be measured with the Bath: even the tenth part of one Bath out of a Cor. Ten baths make one Homer: for one Homer filleth ten Baths.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
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Thou shalt drink also a certain measure of water: Namely, the sixth part of a Hin shalt thou drink daily from the beginning to the end.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And make unto that a hoop of four fingers broad, round about. And make a golden crown also to the hoop round about.
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Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off;
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And behold, two of them went that same day to a town, which was from Jerusalem about three score furlongs, called Emmaus:
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.
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When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters;
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
as the shewbread, the fine flour, the meat offerings, the flawnes of sweet bread, and of the things baken in the frying pan, or broiled on the gridiron, and on all manner measures and size
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make above in the ark. And within a cubit compass shalt thou finish it. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side of it: and thou shalt make it with three lofts - one above another.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
till we, everyone - in the unity of faith, and knowledge of the son of God - grow up unto a perfect man, after the measure of age which is of the fullness of Christ:
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with thee, to help thee, sayeth the LORD. And though I shall destroy all the people among whom I have scattered thee, yet will I not destroy thee, but correct thee, and that with discretion. For I know, that thou art in no wise without fault.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there arose great dearth in Samaria: for they had besieged it, until an ass's head was worth four score sicles of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of doves' dung worth five sicles.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And unto the one lamb take a tenth deal of 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 holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heaven with his span, and hath comprehended all the earth of the world in three measures? Who hath weighed the mountains and hills in a balance?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And whosoever will compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore gapeth hell, and openeth her mouth marvelous wide: that their pride, boasting, and wealth, with such as rejoice therein, may 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, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
and they sounded, and found it twenty fathoms; And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
And there were standing there, six waterpots of stone after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
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