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 18:62 voices

   “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.

   “Three measures of fine meal - The סאה seah, which is here translated measure, contained, according to Bishop Cumberland, about two gallons and a half; and Mr. Ainsworth translates the word peck. On this circumstance the following observations of the judicious and pious Abbe Fleury cannot fail to be acceptable to the reader. Speaking of the frugality of the patriarchs he says: “We have an instance of a splendid entertainment in that which Abraham made for the three angels. He set a whole calf before them, new bread, but baked on the hearth, together with butter and milk.

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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

   “An omer for every man - I shall here once for all give a short account of the measures of capacity among the Hebrews. Omer, עמר from the root amar, to press, squeeze, collect, and bind together; hence a sheaf of corn - a multitude of stalks pressed together.

   “Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.

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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 16:182 voices

   “Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.

   “He that gathered much had nothing over - Because his gathering was in proportion to the number of persons for whom he had to provide. And some having fewer, others more in family, and the gathering being in proportion to the persons who were to eat of it, therefore he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

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4. Exodus 16:36

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

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:361 voice

   “Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah - About six pints, English. See Clarke’s note on Exo 16:16. The true place of this verse seems to be immediately after Exo 16:18, for here it has no connection. 1. On the miracle of the manna, which is the chief subject in this chapter, a good deal has already been said in the preceding notes.

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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.

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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 - Here we have the exact dimensions of this breastplate, or more properly breast-piece or stomacher. It was a span in length and breadth when doubled, and consequently two spans long one way before it was doubled. Between these doublings, it is supposed, the Urim and Thummim were placed. See Clarke on Exo 28:30 (note).

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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

   “A tenth deal of flour - Deal signifies a part, from the Anglo-Saxon word, to divide; hence, a part, a portion taken from the whole. From Num 28:5 we learn that this tenth deal was the tenth part of an ephah, which constituted what is called an omer. See Exo 16:36; and see Clarke’s note on Exo 16:16 of the same chapter, where an account is given of different measures of capacity among the Hebrews. The omer contained about three quarts English. The fourth part of a hin - The hin contained one gallon and two pints.

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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.

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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 6:202 voices

    “This law of his consecration was delivered before, and is here repeated because of some additions made to it. Perpetual - Whensoever any of them shall be so anointed. At night - Or, in the evening; the one to be annexed to the morning-sacrifice, the other to the evening- sacrifice, over and besides that meal-offering which every day was to be added to the daily morning and evening sacrifices.

    “In the day when he is anointed - Not only in that day, but from that day forward, for this was to them and their successors a statute for ever. See Lev 6:22.

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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

    “Oil is added as a fit sign of God's grace and mercy, and of the leper's healing. A log is a measure containing six egg-shells full.

    “Two he-lambs - One for a trespass-offering, Lev 14:12, the other for a burnt-offering, Lev 14:19, Lev 14:20. One ewe-lamb - This was for a sin-offering Lev 14:19. Three tenth deals - Three parts of an ephah, or three omers; See all these measures explained in Exo 16:16 (note). The three tenth deals of flour were for a minchah, meat or gratitude-offering, Lev 14:20. The sin-offering was for his impurity; the trespass-offering for his transgression; and the gratitude-offering for his gracious cleansing. These constituted the offering which each was ordered to bring to the priest; see Mat 8:4.

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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.

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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,

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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 14:212 voices

    “And if he be poor - he shall take one lamb - There could be no cleansing without a sacrifice. On this ground the apostle has properly observed that all things under the law are purged with blood; and that without shedding of blood there is no remission. Even if the person be poor, he must provide one lamb; this could not be dispensed with: - so every soul to whom the word of Divine revelation comes, must bring that Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. There is no redemption but in his blood.

    “But it is observable that though a meaner sacrifice was accepted from the poor, yet the very same ceremony was used for them as was for the rich; for their souls are as precious and Christ and his gospel are the same to both. Let not us therefore have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons, Jam. ii.

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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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