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MEASURE

(The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time)
DRY
1. A bushel, about a peck

2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts

2Ki 6:25

3. A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels

1Ki 4:22
1Ki 5:11
2Ch 2:10
2Ch 27:5
Ezr 7:22

4. An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half

21 scripture references

Ex 16:36
Le 5:11
Le 6:20
Le 19:36
Nu 5:15
Nu 28:5
Jud 6:19
Ru 2:17
1Sa 1:24
1Sa 17:17
Isa 5:10
Eze 45:10
Eze 45:11
Eze 45:13
Eze 45:24
Eze 46:5
Eze 46:7
Eze 46:11
Eze 46:14
Am 8:5
Zec 5:6-10

5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels

Ho 3:2

6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs

Le 27:16
Nu 11:32
Isa 5:10
Eze 45:11-14
Ho 3:2

7. An omer, about one bushel

Ex 16:16
Ex 16:18

8. A seah, about a peck and a half

Ge 18:6
1Sa 25:18
1Ki 18:32
2Ki 7:1
2Ki 7:16
2Ki 7:18

9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah

21 scripture references

Ex 29:40
Le 14:10
Le 14:21
Le 23:13
Le 23:17
Le 24:5
Nu 15:4
Nu 15:6
Nu 15:9
Nu 28:9
Nu 28:12
Nu 28:13
Nu 28:20
Nu 28:21
Nu 28:29
Nu 29:3
Nu 29:4
Nu 29:9
Nu 29:10
Nu 29:14
Nu 29:15

LIQUID

1. A bath, about eight gallons and a half

1Ki 7:26
1Ki 7:38
2Ch 2:10
2Ch 4:5
Ezr 7:22
Isa 5:10
Eze 45:10
Eze 45:11
Eze 45:14
Lu 16:6

2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons

Joh 2:6

3. A hin, about a gallon and a half

Ex 29:40
Ex 30:24
Le 19:36
Le 23:13
Nu 15:4-10
Nu 28:5
Nu 28:7
Nu 28:14
Eze 4:11

4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin

Le 14:10
Le 14:12
Le 14:15
Le 14:21
Le 14:24

See WEIGHTS
See WEIGHTS

LINEAR

1. A finger

Jer 52:21

2. A handbreadth

Ex 25:25
Ex 37:12
1Ki 7:26
2Ch 4:5
Ps 39:5
Eze 40:5
Eze 40:43
Eze 43:13

3. A span

Ex 28:16
1Sa 17:4
Isa 40:12
Isa 48:13
La 2:20
Eze 43:13

4. A cubit, the length of a man’s forearm

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5. A reed, probably six cubits

Eze 40:5

6. A fathom

Ac 27:28

7. A pace

2Sa 6:13

8. A furlong

Lu 24:13

9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile

Mt 5:41

10. A Sabbath day’s journey, two thousand paces

Ac 1:12

MUST BE JUST

Le 19:35
Le 19:36
De 25:13-16
Pr 11:1
Pr 16:11
Pr 20:10
Pr 20:23
Ho 12:7-9
Mic 6:10-12

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