Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
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Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
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Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
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There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small.
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A stone and stone, an ephah and ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also they two.
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A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.
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Weights » Must be just
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
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An abomination of Jehovah stone and stone; and the balance of deceit is not good.
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Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
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A stone and stone, an ephah and ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also they two.
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Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small. There shall not be to thee in thy house an ephah and an ephah, great and small A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just
Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed? Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.
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And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment
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An thy food which thou shalt eat by weight, twenty shekels for a day: from time even to time shalt thou eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham will listen to Ephron, and Abraham will weigh to Ephron the silver, which he spake in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, passing for traffic.
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And I shall buy the field of Hanameel son of mine uncle, which is in Anathoth; and I shall weigh to him seven shekels and ten of silver.
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And it will be as we came to the lodging place, and we opened our sacks, and behold, the silver of each in the mouth of his sack, our silver in weight: and we turned it back in our hand.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he will take the crown of their king from his head; and its weight a talent of gold and a precious stone; and it will be upon David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city exceeding much.
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And great hail, as the weight of a talent, comes down from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God for the blow of the hail; for its blow is exceedingly great
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Weights » All metals were given by
For the gold by weight for the gold, for all the vessels of service; and for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all the vessels of service and service:
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 twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to you.
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And from the chiefs of the fathers they gave to the treasure of the work, gold, two myriads of drachmas, and silver, two thousand two hundred portions.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This they shall give, all passing by upon their reviewing, from half the shekel by the holy shekel; (twenty gerahs the shekel:) from half a shekel an offering to Jehovah.
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And the shekel twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to you.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This they shall give, all passing by upon their reviewing, from half the shekel by the holy shekel; (twenty gerahs the shekel:) from half a shekel an offering to Jehovah.
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And the shekel twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to you.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.
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Who measured the water in his palm, and measured the heavens with a span, and held the dust of the earth in a third, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the bills in scales?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small. There shall not be to thee in thy house an ephah and an ephah, great and small
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And from the sum of heads of the fathers they gave for the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure gold a thousand drachmas, fifty vases, thirty and five hundred priests' tunics. And from the chiefs of the fathers they gave to the treasure of the work, gold, two myriads of drachmas, and silver, two thousand two hundred portions.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And in his shaving his head (and it was from the end of days to days that he will shave, for it was heavy upon him;) and he shaved and weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the stone of the king.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And it shall be when the camels finished drinking, and the man will take a gold ring of half a shekel, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold.
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
And cassia, five hundred by the holy shekel, and the oil of olive, a hin:
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
To make the weight for the wind; and he weighed the waters by measure.
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