47 Bible Verses about weight
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You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.
For each one will bear his own load.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and in silence,
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
His offering was one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin of seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;
And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens grievous to be carried, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
And a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven on men. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was exceedingly great.
For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah. And he cast the lead stone over its opening.
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And when he sheared his head (for it was at every year's end that he sheared it, because it was heavy on him. And he sheared it), and he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, according to the king's weight.
Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, and silver be weighed as its price.
Talk no more so very proudly. Remove arrogance out of your mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.
And the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
And if there are two or three prophets, let them speak, and let the others judge.
And I wrote it in the document, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.
The way of the just is uprightness; O Upright One, weigh the path of the just.
And he took the king's crown from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold, and a precious stone in it. And it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
And this is the writing that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS.
When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.
And David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
And Nicodemus also came, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
Topics on Weight
Just Weights
Proverbs 11:1False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water was gone in the bottle, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs.
Weights And Measures, Dry
2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five silver pieces.
Weights And Measures, Laws
Leviticus 19:35-36You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity.
Weights And Measures, Linear
Jeremiah 52:21And the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And a line of twelve cubits went around it, and the thickness of it was four fingers. It was hollow.
Weights And Measures, Liquid
Leviticus 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three-tenth parts of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Weights Of Gold
Genesis 24:22And it happened, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hand, weighing ten shekels of gold.
Weights Of Other Things
Exodus 30:24and five hundred of cassia, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.