47 Bible Verses about weight
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A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.
T'kel, - thou art weighed in the balances, and found wanting;
For, each one, his own proper load, shall bear: -
The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
And he said unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:
All the ways of a man, may be pure in his own eyes, but, he that testeth spirits, is Yahweh.
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
and thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day, - from time to time, shalt thou eat it;
But be taking heed unto yourselves, lest once your hearts be made heavy - with debauch and drunkenness and anxieties about livelihood, and that day come upon you suddenly,
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
his offering, one charger of silver, a hundred and thirty shekels , the weight thereof, one tossing bowl, of silver, seventy shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary, - both of them, full of fine meal overflowed with oil as a meal-offering;
And, he, said - And, for you, the lawyers, alas! because ye lade men with burdens hard to be borne, and, yourselves, with one of your fingers, touch not the burdens.
And, great hail, as talents, cometh down out of heaven upon mankind; and men blasphemed God, by reason of the plague of hail, - because the plague thereof was, exceeding great.
For, the momentary lightness of thee tribulation, in a manner yet more and more excelling, is working out for us, an age-abiding weight of glory, -
Then said he, This, is Lawlessness. So he thrust her back inside the ephah, - and then thrust the leaden weight into the mouth thereof.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
And when he polled his head - and it was at every year's end that he used to poll it, because it was heavy upon him, therefore he used to poll it - he would weigh the hair of his head, two hundred shekels, by the royal standard.
Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, neither can silver he weighed as the value thereof;
Do not multiply words, so loftily - loftily, Nor let arrogance proceed from your mouth, - For, a GOD of knowledge, is Yahweh, And, for himself, are great doings made firm.
And it came to pass that, the weight of the gold which came in unto Solomon in one year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold;
The precious sons of Zion, they who were weighed against pure gold, How are they accounted as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, - in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity:
Who hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters. Or the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or the hills, in a balance?
and I wrote in the scroll and sealed it, and took in attestation witnesses, - and weighed the silver in the balances.
The path of a righteous man, is, even, - O Upright One! the track of a righteous man, thou makest level.
Then took he the crown of Milcom from off his head, the weight thereof, being a talent of gold, with the precious stones, and it remained on the head of David, - the spoil of the city also, brought he forth in great abundance;
But they bind together heavy burdens, and lay upon men's shoulders, whereas, they, with their finger, are not willing to move them.
Heavy is a stone, and weighty is sand, - but, the vexation of a fool, is heavier than both.
and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold, - and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.
And this is the writing which was inscribed, M'ne, M'ne, T'kel, u-Pharsin.
When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight, - And ye shall eat and not be filled.
So David gave to Ornan, for the place, - shekels of gold, by weight, six hundred.
There came, moreover, Nicodemus also, - he that came unto him by night at the first, - bearing a roll of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight.
Topics on Weight
Just Weights
Proverbs 11:1A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water out of the skin was spent, - so she cant the child under one of the shrubs;
Weights And Measures, Dry
2 Kings 6:25And there came to be, a great famine, in Samaria, and lo! they continued the siege against it, - until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one pint of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Weights And Measures, Laws
Leviticus 19:35-36Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, - in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity:
Weights And Measures, Linear
Jeremiah 52:21Now as for the pillars, eighteen cubits, was the height of each pillar, and, a line of twelve cubits, compassed it about, - and the thickness thereof was four fingers breadth - hollow;
Weights And Measures, Liquid
Leviticus 14:10And, on the eighth day, he shall take two he-lambs, without defect, and one ewe-lamb, the choice of its year without defect, - and three-tenths of fine meal for a meal-offering, overflowed with oil, and one log of oil.
Weights Of Gold
Genesis 24:22And it came to pass when the camels had done drinking, that the man took a ring of gold, half a shekel its weight, - and two bracelets for her hands, ten of gold their weight;
Weights Of Other Things
Exodus 30:24and, cassia, five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, - and, oil olive, a hin.