Thematic Bible: Measures
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Measures » Just weights
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
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You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
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Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
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You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
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Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
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You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third. The Moabites became David's subjects and brought tribute.
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Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).
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When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
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The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
"'If he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he must bring as his offering for his sin which he has committed a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour for a sin offering. He must not place olive oil on it and he must not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
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"On the eighth day he must take two flawless male lambs, one flawless yearling female lamb, three-tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a grain offering mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil,
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(Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
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You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one. You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
"On the eighth day he must take two flawless male lambs, one flawless yearling female lamb, three-tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a grain offering mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil,
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The priest will then take some of the log of olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.
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Measures » Of length » Span
It is to be square when doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide.
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Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."
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The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."
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and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
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And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.
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Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
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Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called 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 alone knows its place.
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When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
They also took care of the bread that is displayed, the flour for offerings, the unleavened wafers, the round cakes, the mixing, and all the measuring.
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper 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 -- a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ's full stature.
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I, the Lord, affirm that I will be with you and will rescue you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished."
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
Samaria's food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey's head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove's droppings for five shekels of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
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Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
And if anyone 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
So Death will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; Zion's dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; when they had sailed a little farther they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms deep.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
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