Bible Verses About Measures

Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.

You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.

(An 'omer is one-tenth of an eifah [which is a bushel dry-measure].)

Make around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and put a molding of gold around the rim.

When folded double it is to be square - a hand-span by a hand-span.

With the one lamb offer two quarts of finely ground flour mixed with one quart of oil from pressed olives; along with one quart of wine as a drink offering.

"'But if his means are insufficient even for two doves or two young pigeons, then he is to bring as his offering for the sin he committed two quarts of fine flour for a sin offering; he is not to put any olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

"On the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, one female lamb in its first year without defect and six-and-a-half quarts of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, and two-thirds of a pint of olive oil.

Next, the cohen is to take some of the two-thirds-pint of olive oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

"'Don't be dishonest when measuring length, weight or capacity.

'Og king of Bashan was the last survivor of the Refa'im. His bed was made of iron; it is still in Rabbah with the people of 'Amon. It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, using the normal cubit [thirteen-and-a-half by six feet].

You are not to have in your house two sets of measures, one big, the other small.

You are to have a correct and fair weight, and you are to have a correct and fair measure, so that you will prolong your days in the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

There came out a champion from the camp of the P'lishtim named Golyat, from Gat, who was nine feet nine inches tall.

He also defeated Mo'av; making them lie down on the ground, he measured them with a length of cord; for every two lengths to be put to death he designated one length to be kept alive. The people of Mo'av became subjects of David and paid tribute.

At the time, there was a severe famine in Shomron; and they maintained their siege until a donkey's head sold for eighty pieces of silver and half a pint of doves' dung for five pieces of silver.

They were to assist with the showbread and the finely ground flour needed for grain offerings, no matter whether of matzah, pan-baked bread or mixed with oil, and no matter what shape or size.

"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

When he determined the force of the wind and parceled out water by measure,

"Make me grasp, ADONAI, what my end must be, what it means that my days are numbered; let me know what a transient creature I am.

You have made my days like handbreadths; for you, the length of my life is like nothing." Yes, everyone, no matter how firmly he stands, is merely a puff of wind. (Selah)

You have fed them tears as their bread and made them drink tears in abundance.

False weights and false measures -ADONAI detests them both.

for a ten-acre vineyard will produce only five gallons of wine, and seed from five bushels of grain will yield but half a bushel."

Therefore Sh'ol has enlarged itself and opened its limitless jaws - and down go their nobles and masses, along with their noise and revels.