Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
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Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
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Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
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Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
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Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
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Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
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You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
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Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
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And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal.
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He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway.
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A measuring line will stretch from there straight to the Hill of Gareb, and then it will turn to Goah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.
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The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil.
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The standard dry measure used in Moses' day equaled twenty quarts.
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Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid.
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Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil.
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The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.
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Measures » Of length » Span
Fold it in half so it is nine inches square.
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A fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines. His name was Goliath of Gath. He was over nine feet tall.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
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The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
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You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
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You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.
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Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
Make a rim three inches wide around it. Put a gold molding around the rim.
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Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
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Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away.
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That day two of them traveled 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. He knows where it lives
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When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea,
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Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
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Measures » Of length » Cubit
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of 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, to a full-grown (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
I am with you. I will rescue you, declares Jehovah. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.
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Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
The siege caused a great food shortage in the city. It was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung cost five pieces of silver.
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
Make an offering of eight cups of flour mixed with one quart of virgin olive oil with the first lamb. Offer one quart of wine for a drink offering with the other 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, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
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Measures » Of length » Mile
Whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
That is why the grave's appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.
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Measures » Of length » Fathom
They sounded and found twenty fathoms. After a little space they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.
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Measures » The jews often used unjust
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed?
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Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Six stone water jars were placed there to honor purification rules of the Jews. Each contained more than twenty gallons.
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