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 the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
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Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
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"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Weights » Must be just
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
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A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
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"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
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And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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"And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
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And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us,
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
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And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.
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Weights » All metals were given by
the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,
He made it and all its utensils out of a talent of pure gold.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
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The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
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The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed 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
"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas of silver. And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
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