Thematic Bible: Weights
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Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
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Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
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A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
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'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
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A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
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Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.
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Weights » Must be just
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
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An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
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A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
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A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
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'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
'In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.
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And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink;
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And thy food that thou dost eat is by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.
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Weights » Value of money estimated according to
And Abraham hearkeneth unto Ephron, and Abraham weigheth to Ephron the silver which he hath spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.
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And I buy the field, that is in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle's son, and I weigh to him the money -- seventeen shekels of silver.
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and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money is in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
and he taketh the crown of their king from off his head, and its weight is a talent of gold, and precious stones, and it is on the head of David; and the spoil of the city he hath brought out, very much;
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and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.
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Weights » All metals were given by
even gold by weight, for things of gold, for all instruments of service and service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of service and service;
of a talent of pure gold he hath made it, and all its vessels.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.
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And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel is the heave-offering to Jehovah;
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And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.
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Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel is the heave-offering to Jehovah;
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And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.
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Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
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Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
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Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
And from the extremity of the heads of the fathers they have given to the work; the Tirshatha hath given to the treasure, of gold, drams a thousand, bowls fifty, priests' coats thirty and five hundred. And of the heads of the fathers they have given to the treasure of the work, of gold, drams two myriads, and of silver, pounds two thousand and two hundred.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
and in his polling his head -- and it hath been at the end of year by year that he polleth it, for it is heavy on him, and he hath polled it -- he hath even weighed out 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 cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight is a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight is ten bekahs of gold),
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a hin;
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Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
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