10 Bible Verses about Comparative Measures
Most Relevant Verses
Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.
One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.'
This amounted to one-fifth of an ounce per person, for everyone counted who was at least twenty years old. There were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty people.
If a person gives part of a field to Jehovah as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with two quarts of barley will be worth twenty ounces of silver.
The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure.
You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure.
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
