Thematic Bible: Weights
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Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
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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 LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Diverse weights are an abomination to LORD, and a FALSE balance is not good.
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A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay,
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And thy food which thou shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. Thou shall eat it from time to time.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
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And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
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And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full 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. And the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones. And it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceedingly much.
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And great hail, like a talent weight, descended out of the sky upon men. And the men blasphemed God from the plague of the hail, because the plague of it was exceedingly great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service,
He made it of a talent of pure gold, and all the vessels of it.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And some of the heads of fathers gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five 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, that God may know my integrity);
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some from among the heads of fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. And some of the heads of fathers gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut 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, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set 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 wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
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