Measure

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

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

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

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

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. 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.” “But I am Yahweh your God from the…

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak…

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.

“ ‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as 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…

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.

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

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 the same as the homer.

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;)

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

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

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

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