MEASURE

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• Genesis 18:6

  Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

• Exodus 16:16

  This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”

• Exodus 16:18

  When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

• Exodus 16:36

  Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.

• Exodus 25:25

  You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

• Exodus 28:16

  It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its width.

• Exodus 29:40

  and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

• Exodus 30:24

  and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

• Exodus 37:12

  He made a border of a hand width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.

• Leviticus 5:11

  “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:20

  “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.

• Leviticus 14:10

  “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

• Leviticus 14:12

  “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 14:15

  The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.

• Leviticus 14:21

  “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

• Leviticus 14:24

  The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:35

  “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 23:13

  The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

• Leviticus 23:17

  You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 24:5

  “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

• Leviticus 27:16

  “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

• Numbers 11:32

  The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

• Numbers 15:4

  then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil.

• Numbers 15:5

  You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

• Numbers 15:6

  “‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:7

  and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 15:8

  When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh;

• Numbers 15:9

  then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:

• Numbers 15:10

  and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 28:5

  with one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

• Numbers 28:7

  Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.

• Numbers 28:9

  “‘On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

• Numbers 28:12

  and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;

• Numbers 28:13

  and one tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Numbers 28:14

  Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

• Numbers 28:20

  and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.

• Numbers 28:21

  You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

• Numbers 28:29

  one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

• Numbers 29:3

  and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

• Numbers 29:4

  and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

• Numbers 29:9

  and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

• Numbers 29:10

  one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs:

• Numbers 29:14

  and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,

• Numbers 29:15

  and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

• Deuteronomy 25:13

  You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

• Deuteronomy 25:14

  You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

• Deuteronomy 25:15

  You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 25:16

  For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

• 1 Samuel 17:4

  A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

• 2 Samuel 6:13

  When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

• 1 Kings 4:22

  Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

• 1 Kings 5:11

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  He made ten basins of brass. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

• 1 Kings 18:32

  With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

• 2 Kings 6:25

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

• 2 Kings 7:1

  Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

• 2 Kings 7:16

  The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to Yahweh’s word.

• 2 Kings 7:18

  It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria”;

• 2 Chronicles 2:10

  Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 27:5

  He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. The children of Ammon also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third.

• Ezra 7:22

  up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

• Psalms 39:5

  Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

• Proverbs 11:1

  A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

• Proverbs 16:11

  Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

• Proverbs 20:10

  Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 20:23

  Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

• Isaiah 5:10

  For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

• Isaiah 48:13

  Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

• Jeremiah 52:21

  As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.

• Lamentations 2:20

  “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Ezekiel 4:11

  You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.

• Ezekiel 40:5

  Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

• Ezekiel 40:43

  The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the meat of the offering.

• Ezekiel 43:13

  These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

• Ezekiel 45:10

  You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.

• Ezekiel 45:12

  The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

• Ezekiel 45:13

  This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

• Ezekiel 45:14

  and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)

• Ezekiel 45:24

  He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:5

  and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:7

  and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:11

  In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:14

  You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.

• Hosea 3:2

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

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Hosea 12:8

  Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

• Hosea 12:9

  “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

• Amos 8:5

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

• Micah 6:10

  Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

• Micah 6:12

  Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

• Zechariah 5:6

  I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land

• Zechariah 5:7

  (and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”

• Zechariah 5:8

  He said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

• Zechariah 5:9

  Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

• Zechariah 5:10

  Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”

• Matthew 5:15

  Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 5:41

  Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

• Mark 4:21

  He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

• Luke 11:33

  “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 16:6

  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

• Luke 24:13

  Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

• John 2:6

  Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

• Acts 1:12

  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

• Acts 27:28

  They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.