Thematic Bible: Weights
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Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
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Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
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True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
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Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
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Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
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Weights » Must be just
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
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Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
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Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Or in your house different measures, a great and a small. But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
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And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
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And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.
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So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;
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And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.
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And great drops of ice, every one about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven on men: and men said evil things against God because of the punishment of the ice-drops; for it is very great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;
A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels
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And some of the heads of families gave into the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.
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And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.
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And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
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In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes. And some of the heads of families gave into the store for 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 had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
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