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 an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
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A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small:
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Ye shall have a true weight, and a true Ephah, and a true Bath.
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Weights » Must be just
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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The LORD abhoreth two manner of weights, and a false balance is an evil thing.
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A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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"'Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither in meteyard, weight or measure. But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished? Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.
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And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
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And the meat that thou eatest, shall have a certain weight appointed: namely twenty shekels every day. This appointed meat shalt thou eat daily, from the beginning to the end.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.
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and so I loosed the land from Hananel of Anathoth, mine Uncle's son, and weighed him there the money: even seven sicles, and ten silver pence.
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and as we came to an inn and opened our sacks: behold, every man's money was in his sack with full weight. But we have brought it again with us,
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
And he took the king's crown from off his head, which weighed a hundred weight of gold, and was set with precious stones. And David wore it on his head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in exceeding great abundance.
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And there fell a great hail, as it had been talents, out of heaven upon the men; and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail, for it was great and the plague of it sore.
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Weights » All metals were given by
And appointed him what weight of gold should serve for things of gold throughout all vessels for whatsoever use it served: and what weight of silver should suffice for all manner of vessels of silver, for whatsoever purpose they served.
An hundred weight of pure gold, made both it and all that belonged thereto.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
One Sicle maketh twenty Gerahs. So twenty Sicles, and twenty five and fifteen Sicles make a Mina.
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And some of the chief fathers gave unto the treasure of the work, twenty thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
And thus much shall every man give that goeth in the number: half a sicle, after the holy sicle: a sicle is twenty geras: and a half sicle shall be the heave offering unto the LORD.
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One Sicle maketh twenty Gerahs. So twenty Sicles, and twenty five and fifteen Sicles make a Mina.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
And thus much shall every man give that goeth in the number: half a sicle, after the holy sicle: a sicle is twenty geras: and a half sicle shall be the heave offering unto the LORD.
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One Sicle maketh twenty Gerahs. So twenty Sicles, and twenty five and fifteen Sicles make a Mina.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.
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"Who hath holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heaven with his span, and hath comprehended all the earth of the world in three measures? Who hath weighed the mountains and hills in a balance?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth 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, neither in meteyard, weight or measure. But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And certain of the ancient fathers gave unto the work. Hathirsatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams, fifty basens, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. And some of the chief fathers gave unto the treasure of the work, twenty thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
And when he shaved his head - for at every years' end he shaved it because it was heavy on him, and therefore he shaved it - the hair thereof weighed two hundred sicles weight of the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
And as the camels had left drinking, he took an earring of half a sicle weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten sicles weight of gold,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
of sweet calamite, two hundred and fifty. Of cassia, two hundred and fifty after the holy sicle, and of olive oil a hin.
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters;
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