'Measuring' in the Bible

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

“I will make justice the measuring lineAnd righteousness the level;Then hail will sweep away the refuge of liesAnd the waters will overflow the secret place.

Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.

The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.

So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around.

He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

“Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring lineFor you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Therefore thus says the Lord, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.