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 wicked balances, and with a 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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A 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 diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an 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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Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.
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A just balance and scales are Jehovah'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 Jehovah.
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 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 diverse weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth 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 unto 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 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 unto Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children 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 mine 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 thereof 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, exceeding much.
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And great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding 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;
Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
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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 heads of fathers houses 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, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to 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 they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to 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, That God may know mine integrity);
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Who hath 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 shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
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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. 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 from among the heads of fathers houses gave unto 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 houses 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 done 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 let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is 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 meteth out the waters by measure.
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