Measure

How Nave’s arranged it

• (The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time)
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• 1. A bushel, about a peckMatthew 5:15Mark 4:21Luke 11:33
• 2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts2 Kings 6:25
• 3. A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels1 Kings 4:221 Kings 5:112 Chronicles 2:102 Chronicles 27:5Ezra 7:22
• 4. An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a halfExodus 16:36Leviticus 5:11Leviticus 6:20Leviticus 19:36Numbers 5:15Numbers 28:5Judges 6:19Ruth 2:171 Samuel 1:241 Samuel 17:17Isaiah 5:10Ezekiel 45:10Ezekiel 45:11Ezekiel 45:13Ezekiel 45:24Ezekiel 46:5Ezekiel 46:7Ezekiel 46:11Ezekiel 46:14Amos 8:5
• 5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushelsHosea 3:2
• 6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahsLeviticus 27:16Numbers 11:32Isaiah 5:10Ezekiel 45:11–14Hosea 3:2
• 7. An omer, about one bushelExodus 16:16Exodus 16:18
• 8. A seah, about a peck and a halfGenesis 18:61 Samuel 25:181 Kings 18:322 Kings 7:12 Kings 7:162 Kings 7:18
• 9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephahExodus 29:40Leviticus 14:10Leviticus 14:21Leviticus 23:13Leviticus 23:17Leviticus 24:5Numbers 15:4Numbers 15:6Numbers 15:9Numbers 28:9Numbers 28:12Numbers 28:13Numbers 28:20Numbers 28:21Numbers 28:29Numbers 29:3Numbers 29:4Numbers 29:9Numbers 29:10Numbers 29:14
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The passages, in Bible order (100)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 18:6

   So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 18:61 voice

   “He says, sprinkle three measures of flour, and make it ash-colored. In Greek, they are called ἐγκρύφια, that is, hidden; because every mystery should be hidden and covered with faithful silence, lest it be rashly divulged to profane ears. The divine majesty is nourished by this, and it feasts on this affection, which is sparing in speech and does not bring sacred things into the open.

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2. Exodus 16:16

   This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:162 voices

   “Nay, verily, the Holy Spirit is not given by measure, but is poured out altogether on the believer. For if the day rises alike to all, and if the sun is diffused with like and equal light over all, how much more does Christ, who is the true sun and the true day, bestow in His Church the light of eternal life with the like equality!

   “This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded,.... Respecting the gathering of it, the rule or rules he would have observed concerning that, as follows: gather of it every man according to his eating; according to his appetite, and according to the appetites of those that were in his family, as much as they can all eat; and that they may have enough, the particular quantity is fixed for each of them.

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3. Exodus 16:18

   When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:181 voice

   “And when they did mete it with an omer,....

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4. Exodus 16:36

   (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:361 voice

   “Anyway, when the instruction is given to consecrate in a golden vessel the memorial of the food sent down by God from heaven, "the gomor," it is written, "is a tenth part of three measures." For our purposes, "three measures" means three sources of judgment: perception of sensible objects; reason, for evaluating sentences, nouns and verbs; and the intellect, for intelligible objects.

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5. Exodus 25:25

   And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 25:251 voice

   “And thou shalt make unto it a border of art hand's breadth round about,....

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6. Exodus 28:16

   It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 28:161 voice

   “Four square it shall be, being doubled,.... That is, when it was doubled; for the length of it, according to Maimonides (c), was a cubit, which is two spans, and so, when it was doubled, was but one, and its length and breadth being alike, as follows: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof; a square, which is the measure, the form of the new Jerusalem, the church of Christ, Rev 21:16 and may denote the perfection, firmness, and immovableness of it, Psa 125:

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7. Exodus 29:40

   With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 29:401 voice

   “And with the one lamb a tenth deal,....

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8. Exodus 30:24

   500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 30:241 voice

   “And of cassia five hundred shekels,.... Or two hundred and fifty ounces: after the shekel of the sanctuary; according to the standard weight kept there. This "cassia" was not the "cassia solutiva", which is of a purgative nature, and now in use in physic, but the "cassia odorata", or the sweet smelling "cassia": which, Pancirollus (s) says, some take to be the nard, out of which a most sweet oil is pressed; and Servius (t) says, that cassia is an herb of a most sweet smell.

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9. Exodus 37:12

   And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.

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10. Leviticus 5:11

    But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 5:111 voice

    “But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons,....

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11. Leviticus 6:20

    “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 6:201 voice

    “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons,....

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12. Leviticus 14:10

    On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:102 voices

    "And the offering of fine flour, sirs," I said, "which was prescribed to be presented on behalf of those purified from leprosy, was a type of the bread of the Eucharist, the celebration of which our Lord Jesus Christ prescribed, in remembrance of the suffering which He endured on behalf of those who are purified in soul from all iniquity, in order that we may at the same time thank God for having created the world, with all things therein, for the sake of man, and for delivering us from the evil in which we were, and for utterly overthrowing principalities and powers by Him who suffered according to His will.

    “And on the eighth day,....

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13. Leviticus 14:12

    Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:121 voice

    “And the priest shall take one he lamb,....

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14. Leviticus 14:15

    Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:151 voice

    “And the priest shall take some of the log of oil,....

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15. Leviticus 14:21

    If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:211 voice

    “And if he be poor, and cannot get so much,....

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16. Leviticus 14:24

    The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

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