Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, - a great and a small.
Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
Balances of righteousness, and an ephah of righteousness, and A bath of righteousness, have ye:
Weights » Must be just
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
An abomination to Yahweh, are divers weights, and, deceptive balances, are not good.
The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, - in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity: Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth 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 measures, - a great and a small. A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.
Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness, - and the scant measure - accurst? Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight, - And ye shall eat and not be filled.
And he said unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:
and thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day, - from time to time, shalt thou eat it;
Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, - four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant,
And I bought the field from Hanameel son of mine uncle that was in Anathoth, - and weighed him the silver, seventeen shekels, was the silver;
And it came to pass when we had entered into the inn, that we opened our sacks, and lo! the silver of each man, in the mouth of his sack, - our silver in its full weight, - so we have bought it back in our hand!
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
Then took he the crown of Milcom from off his head, the weight thereof, being a talent of gold, with the precious stones, and it remained on the head of David, - the spoil of the city also, brought he forth in great abundance;
And, great hail, as talents, cometh down out of heaven upon mankind; and men blasphemed God, by reason of the plague of hail, - because the plague thereof was, exceeding great.
Weights » All metals were given by
of gold, by weight, for the gold, for all manner of utensils for each several service, - for all manner of utensils of silver, by weight, for all manner of utensils for each several service;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, - twenty shekels five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels, the weight shall be to you.
and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics, - and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This, shall they give - every one that passeth over to them that have been numbered - a half-shekel by the shekel of the sanctuary, - the shekel is twenty gerahs - the half-shekel, shalt be a heave-offering to Yahweh.
and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, - twenty shekels five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels, the weight shall be to you.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This, shall they give - every one that passeth over to them that have been numbered - a half-shekel by the shekel of the sanctuary, - the shekel is twenty gerahs - the half-shekel, shalt be a heave-offering to Yahweh.
and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, - twenty shekels five and twenty shekels and fifteen shekels, the weight shall be to you.
Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Who hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or the hills, in a balance?
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 measures, - a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For, the momentary lightness of thee tribulation, in a manner yet more and more excelling, is working out for us, an age-abiding weight of glory, -
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, - in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity: Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And, a portion of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the work, - the governor, gave unto the treasury, of gold, a thousand darics, tossing bowls, fifty, tunics for priests, five hundred, and thirty; and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics, - and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he polled his head - and it was at every year's end that he used to poll it, because it was heavy upon him, therefore he used to poll it - he would weigh the hair of his head, two hundred shekels, by the royal standard.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And it came to pass when the camels had done drinking, that the man took a ring of gold, half a shekel its weight, - and two bracelets for her hands, ten of gold their weight;
Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,
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