Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
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Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
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You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
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Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
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You shall have a just balance, a just ephah and a just bath.
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Weights » Must be just
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
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Different kinds of weights are hateful to Jehovah, and a false balance is not good.
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A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
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Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a great ephah and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful? Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the 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 you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and in silence,
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And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, which passes with the merchant.
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And I bought the field in Anathoth, of Hanameel my uncle's son, and weighed him the silver, seventeen shekels of silver.
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And it happened, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's silver was in the mouth of his sack, our silver in full weight. And we have brought it again in our hands.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he took the king's crown from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold, and a precious stone in it. 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 a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven on men. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was exceedingly great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
even gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of every kind of service; silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels every kind of service;
He made it of a talent of pure gold, and all the vessels of it.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
They shall give this, every one that passes among those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering of Jehovah.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
They shall give this, every one that passes among those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering of Jehovah.
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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up 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 great stone and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a great ephah and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priest's garments. And some of the chiefs of the fathers gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he sheared his head (for it was at every year's end that he sheared it, because it was heavy on him. And he sheared it), and he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, according to the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And it happened, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hand, weighing ten shekels of gold.
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets 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 five hundred of cassia, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure.
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