Thematic Bible: Weights
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Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
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You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
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Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
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You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
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Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
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You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).
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Weights » Must be just
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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The Lord abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.
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Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
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Diverse weights and diverse measures -- the Lord abhors both of them.
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You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one. You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one. You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much. I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
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Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
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The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
So Abraham agreed to Ephron's price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth -- 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.
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So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.
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But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money -- the full amount -- in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
He took the crown of their king from his head -- it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, and held a precious stone -- and it was placed on David's head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.
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And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people, but they blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it was so horrendous.
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Weights » All metals were given by
He gave him the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord's temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service,
He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
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Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord.
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The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord.
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The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
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Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one. You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Some of the family leaders contributed to the work. The governor contributed to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments. Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
When he would shave his head -- at the end of every year he used to shave his head, for it grew too long and he would shave it -- he used to weigh the hair of his head at three pounds according to the king's weight.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil.
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.
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