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Bible Verses About Measures

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  1. and this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

  2. a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, --lower, second, and third stories dost thou make it.

  3. and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.

  4. and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.

  5. it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.

  6. and a tenth deal of fine flour, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin, and a libation, a fourth part of a hin, of wine, is for the one lamb.

  7. `And if his hand reach not to two turtle-doves, or to two young pigeons, then he hath brought in his offering--he who hath sinned--a tenth of an ephah of flour for a sin-offering; he putteth no oil on it, nor doth he put on it frankincense, for it is a sin-offering,

  8. `And on the eighth day he taketh two lambs, perfect ones, and one ewe-lamb, daughter of a year, a perfect one, and three tenth deals of flour for a present, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

  9. and the priest hath taken of the log of oil, and hath poured on the left palm of the priest,

  10. `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

  11. for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.

  12. Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

  13. Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

  14. And there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath is his name, from Gath; his height is six cubits and a span,

  15. And he smiteth Moab, and measureth them with a line, causing them to lie down on the earth, and he measureth two lines to put to death, and the fulness of the line to keep alive, and the Moabites are to David for servants, bearers of a present.

  16. and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

  17. and for the bread of the arrangement, and for fine flour for present, and for the thin unleavened cakes, and for the work of the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all liquid measure and solid measure;

  18. God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.

  19. To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

  20. `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days--what it is ,' I know how frail I am .

  21. Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

  22. Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

  23. A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

  24. For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

  25. Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one--into her.