Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.
May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:
So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.
And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.
All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure.
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.
And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
May the sin of this people have forgiveness, in the measure of your great mercy, as you have had mercy on them from Egypt up till now.
Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:
Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil:
Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.
And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.
(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.
But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.
And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.
And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.
And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.
Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.
And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.
And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.
And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.
Then elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.
Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.
So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a Shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.
And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;
Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.
The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;
And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.
And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.
He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.
Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.
And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the ruler of all?
Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
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