Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Weights » Must be just
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
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Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.
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The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity: just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable? Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of Heth four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.
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And I bought of Hanameel, mine uncle's son, the field which is in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seventeen shekels of silver.
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And it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money according to its weight; and we have brought it again in our hand.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he took the crown of their king from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold with the precious stones; and it was set on David's head; and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
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and a great hail, as of a talent weight, comes down out of the heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, for the plague of it is exceeding great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
gold by weight for things of gold, for all utensils of each kind of service; for all utensils of silver, by weight, for all utensils of each kind of service;
Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its utensils.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And some of the chief fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This shall they give every one that passeth among them that are numbered half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This shall they give every one that passeth among them that are numbered half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our momentary and light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, and in measure of capacity: just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some of the chief fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand darics of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' coats. And some of the chief fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year's end that he shaved it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And it came to pass when the camels had drunk enough, that the man took a gold ring, of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands, ten shekels weight of gold,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin;
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,
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