33 Bible Verses about Weights And Measures, Dry

The siege caused a great food shortage in the city. It was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung cost five pieces of silver.

This is what Jehovah has commanded: Each man should gather according to what he can eat. You shall take two quarts for each person in your tent. The sons of Israel did this. Some gathered much and some little. They measured it. Those who gathered much did not have too much. Some who gathered less did not have too little. Each had gathered just what he needed.read more.
Moses said: No one is to keep any of it for tomorrow. Some of them did not listen to Moses and saved part of it. The next morning it was full of worms and smelled rotten. Moses was angry with them. Every morning each one gathered as much as he needed. When the sun grew hot, what was left on the ground melted. The sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts for each person. All the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses about it. (Mark 15:42)

Moses said: This is what Jehovah has commanded: 'Let two quarts of it be kept throughout your generations. Then they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said: Quick! Make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.

So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.

He used the stones to make an altar to the name of Jehovah. He dug a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

Elisha answered: Hear the word of Jehovah: 'By this time tomorrow you will be able to buy in Samaria ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley for one piece of silver.'

She gathered the heads of grain till evening. After crushing out the seed, it came to about an ephah of grain.

If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.

Take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour.

Whoever presents the offering must also give Jehovah a grain offering of eight cups of flour mixed with one quart of oil. With each sheep or goat for the burnt offering or any other sacrifice, also give an offering of one quart of wine. With a ram, give a grain offering of sixteen cups of flour mixed with one and one quarter quarts of oilread more.
and an offering of one and one quarter quarts of wine. Offer them as a soothing aroma to Jehovah. When you sacrifice a young bull as a burnt offering to Jehovah or make any other kind of sacrifice to keep a vow or as a fellowship offering. Offer with the young bull a grain offering of twenty-four cups of flour mixed with two quarts of oil.

So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to Jehovah's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.

Jesse told his son David: Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away.

You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures. 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.

I asked: What is it? And he replied: This is the ephah measure that goes forth. This is their appearance in all the land A round flat weight made of lead was lifted up. There was a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah measure. He said: This is Wickedness. He tossed her down into the middle of the ephah measure. He threw the weight of lead on the opening.

So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.

Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.

As provisions for your lumbermen, I will send you one hundred thousand bushels of wheat, one hundred thousand bushels of barley, one hundred and ten thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of olive oil.

He fought with the king of the Ammonites and conquered them. That year the Ammonites gave him seven thousand and five hundred pounds of silver, sixty thousand bushels of wheat, and sixty thousand bushels of barley. The Ammonites gave him the same amount for two more years.

Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure.

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.

All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered the quails. No one gathered less than sixty bushels. Then they spread the quails out all around the camp.

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.

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.

I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say: A measure (quart: U.S. dry). of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see that you do not hurt the oil and the wine.

He offered another illustration: The kingdom of heaven is similar to leaven. A woman hid leaven in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour. Soon the whole batch of dough rises.

A light is not placed under a cover. To the contrary, it is placed on a table so all may see.

He asked them: Is the lamp placed under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on the stand?

No man lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a bushel. He puts it on a table so those who enter may see the light.

He asked another: 'How much do you owe?' 'A thousand bushels of wheat,' he answered. 'Here is your bill. Pay eight hundred bushels.'