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Bible Verses About Measures

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  1. And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

  2. A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

  3. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

  4. And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

  5. Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

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

  7. But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his oblation for that wherein he hath sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering.

  8. And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

  9. And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;

  10. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

  11. (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

  12. Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

  13. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

  15. And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

  16. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

  17. for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size;

  18. God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.

  19. To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

  20. Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

  21. Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

  22. Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

  23. Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

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

  25. Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.