Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
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Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
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A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
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"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.
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Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
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[There] shall be for you {an honest set of scales} and {an honest ephah} and {an honest bath}.
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Weights » Must be just
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
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An abomination of Yahweh [is] {a stone and a weight}, and scales of falsehood are not good.
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A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
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Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
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" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}. There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}. [Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed? Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
At my breaking [the] {supply} of bread for you, then ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat [it], and you shall not be satisfied.
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And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror,
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And your food that you will eat [will be] according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times} you shall eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.
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And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that [was] at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels.
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but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one's money [was] in the mouth of his sack--our money in its [full] weight--so we have returned [with] it in our hands.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight [was] a talent of gold, and there [was] a precious stone [in it] and it [was] put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city {in great abundance}.
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And large hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds, came down from the sky upon people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, because the plague of it was very great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
[and] for the gold, according to the weight of the gold for all the vessels of the service, and the service of all the vessels of silver according to the weight of all the vessels {for every kind of service}.
He made it [from] a talent of pure gold and all its [pieces of] equipment.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel [shall weigh] twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels [and] ten and five shekels, [that] shall make the mina for you.
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Now some of the heads of the {families} gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This they will give, {everyone who is counted}, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, [which is] twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel [is] a contribution for Yahweh.
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And the shekel [shall weigh] twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels [and] ten and five shekels, [that] shall make the mina for you.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This they will give, {everyone who is counted}, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, [which is] twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel [is] a contribution for Yahweh.
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And the shekel [shall weigh] twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels [and] ten and five shekels, [that] shall make the mina for you.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let him weigh me in [the] balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.
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Who has measured [the] waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off [the] heavens with span, comprehended the dust of the earth in third of a measure and weighed out [the] mountains in the scales, and [the] hills in a balance?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}. There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Now some from the heads of the {families} gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics. Now some of the heads of the {families} gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
When he shaved his head, it would happen {every year}, which he did because [it was] heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh 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
And it happened [that] as the camels finished drinking the man took a gold ring of a half shekel in weight and two bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and five hundred [shekels of] cassia, according to the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil.
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
{When he gave} weight to the wind and he apportioned [the] waters by measure,
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