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 abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Can I be pure with false 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 your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
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Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the 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 abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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Double weights are an abomination unto the LORD, and a false balance is not good.
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A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house different measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you 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 break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.
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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
Then Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which 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 of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
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and it came to pass when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, each 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 their king's crown from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold with the precious stones, and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
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And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
He gave gold by weight for that of gold, for all the vessels of each manner of service; silver also for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all the vessels of each service.
Of a talent of pure gold he made it and all its vessels.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, with twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And the princes of the families gave for the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This shall be given by every one that passes among those that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering to the LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, with twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This shall be given by every one that passes among those that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering to the LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, with twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and prepared the heavens with his palm and with three fingers measured the dust of the earth and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills with weights?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house different measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some of the princes of the families gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave for the treasure one thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests' garments. And the princes of the families gave for the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year's end that he shaved it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore, he shaved it), the hair of his head weighed 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 pendant 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, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, 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 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive one hin;
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Can I be pure with false 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 and to supply water by measure,
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