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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Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD 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 in the bag are his work.
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You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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You 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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Diverse 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 in the bag are his work.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small. But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
And when I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
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And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And 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 merchants.
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And I bought the field of Hanamel 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, every 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 exceedingly great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all articles of all manner of service; silver also for all articles of silver by weight, for all articles of every kind of service:
Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its utensils.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your mina.
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And some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred minas of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) a half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your mina.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) a half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your mina.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out heaven with the span, and known 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 differing weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. And some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred minas of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he cut the hair of his head, (for it was at every year's end that he cut it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he cut it:) he weighed the hair of his head at 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 earring 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 surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and 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 olive oil a hin:
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
To make the weight for the wind; and he apportions the waters by measure.
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