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Measure
(From Nave's Topical Bible)

(The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time) DRY A bushel, about a peck Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33 A cab, or kab, about two quarts 2 Kings 6:25 A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels 1 Kings 4:22; 5:11; 2 Chronicles 2:10; 27:5; Ezra 7:22 An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half Exodus 16:36; Leviticus 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Numbers 5:15; 28:5; Judges 6:19; Ruth 2:17; 1 Samuel 1:24; 17:17; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Amos 8:5; Zechariah 5:6-10 A half-homer, about five and a half bushels Hosea 3:2 A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs Leviticus 27:16; Numbers 11:32; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:11-14; Hosea 3:2 An omer, about one bushel Exodus 16:16,18 A seah, about a peck and a half Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 7:1,16,18 A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 14:10,21; 23:13,17; 24:5; Numbers 15:4,6,9; 28:9,12,13,20,21,29; 29:3,4,9,10,14,15 LIQUID A bath, about eight gallons and a half 1 Kings 7:26,38; 2 Chronicles 2:10; 4:5; Ezra 7:22; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:10,11,14; Luke 16:6 A firkin, nearly nine gallons John 2:6 A hin, about a gallon and a half Exodus 29:40; 30:24; Leviticus 19:36; 23:13; Numbers 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Ezekiel 4:11 A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin Leviticus 14:10,12,15,21,24 See WEIGHTS LINEAR A finger Jeremiah 52:21 A handbreadth Exodus 25:25; 37:12; 1 Kings 7:26; 2 Chronicles 4:5; Psalms 39:5; Ezekiel 40:5,43; 43:13 A span Exodus 28:16; 1 Samuel 17:4; Isaiah 40:12; 48:13; Lamentations 2:20; Ezekiel 43:13 A cubit, the length of a man’s forearm See CUBIT A reed, probably six cubits Ezekiel 40:5 A fathom Acts 27:28 A pace 2 Samuel 6:13 A furlong Luke 24:13 A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile Matthew 5:41 10. A Sabbath day’s journey, two thousand paces Acts 1:12 MUST BE JUST Leviticus 19:35,36; Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Hosea 12:7-9; Micah 6:10-12 See DISHONESTY See INTEGRITY

 

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