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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 kjv@Matthew:5:15; kjv@Mark:4:21; kjv@Luke:11:33

-2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts kjv@2Kings:6:25

-3. A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels kjv@1Kings:4:22; kjv@1Kings:5:11; kjv@2Chronicles:2:10; kjv@2Chronicles:27:5; kjv@Ezra:7:22

-4. An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half kjv@Exodus:16:36; kjv@Leviticus:5:11; kjv@Leviticus:6:20; kjv@Leviticus:19:36; kjv@Numbers:5:15; kjv@Numbers:28:5; kjv@Judges:6:19; kjv@Ruth:2:17; kjv@1Samuel:1:24; kjv@1Samuel:17:17; kjv@Ezekiel:45:10-11 kjv@Ezekiel:45:Isaiah:5:10; 13, 24; kjv@Isaiah:46:5-7 kjv@Isaiah:46:11 kjv@Isaiah:46:14; kjv@Amos:8:5; kjv@Zechariah:5:6-10

-5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels kjv@Hosea:3:2

-6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs kjv@Leviticus:27:16; kjv@Numbers:11:32; kjv@Isaiah:5:10; kjv@Ezekiel:45:11-14; kjv@Hosea:3:2

-7. An omer, about one bushel kjv@Exodus:16:16-18

-8. A seah, about a peck and a half kjv@Genesis:18:6; kjv@1Samuel:25:18; kjv@2Kings:7:1 kjv@2Kings:7:1Kings:18:32; 16, 18

-9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah kjv@Exodus:29:40; kjv@Leviticus:14:10 kjv@Leviticus:14:21 kjv@Leviticus:23:13 kjv@Leviticus:23:17 kjv@Numbers:15:4 kjv@Numbers:15:Numbers:24:5; 6, 9; kjv@Numbers:28:9 kjv@Numbers:28:12, 13, 20, kjv@Numbers:29:3-4 kjv@Numbers:29:9 kjv@Numbers:29:10 kjv@Numbers:29:21, 29; 14, 15

- LIQUID

-1. A bath, about eight gallons and a half kjv@1Kings:7:26 kjv@1Kings:7:38 kjv@2Chronicles:2:10; kjv@2Chronicles:4:5; kjv@Ezra:7:22; kjv@Isaiah:5:10; kjv@Ezekiel:45:10-11 kjv@Ezekiel:45:14; kjv@Luke:16:6

-2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons kjv@John:2:6

-3. A hin, about a gallon and a half kjv@Exodus:29:40; kjv@Exodus:30:24; kjv@Leviticus:19:36; kjv@Leviticus:23:13; kjv@Leviticus:28:5 kjv@Leviticus:28:Numbers:15:4-10; 7, 14; kjv@Ezekiel:4:11

-4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin kjv@Leviticus:14:10-12 kjv@Leviticus:14:15 kjv@Leviticus:14:21 kjv@Leviticus:14:24 .
See WEIGHTS

- LINEAR

-1. A finger kjv@Jeremiah:52:21

-2. A handbreadth kjv@Exodus:25:25; kjv@Exodus:37:12; kjv@1Kings:7:26; kjv@2Chronicles:4:5; kjv@Psalms:39:5; kjv@Ezekiel:40:5 kjv@Ezekiel:40:43 kjv@Ezekiel:43:13

-3. A span kjv@Exodus:28:16; kjv@1Samuel:17:4; kjv@Isaiah:40:12; kjv@Isaiah:48:13; kjv@Lamentations:2:20; kjv@Ezekiel:43:13

-4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm .
See CUBIT

-5. A reed, probably six cubits kjv@Ezekiel:40:5

-6. A fathom kjv@Acts:27:28

-7. A pace kjv@2Samuel:6:13

-8. A furlong kjv@Luke:24:13

-9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile kjv@Matthew:5:41

-10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces kjv@Acts:1:12

- MUST BE JUST kjv@Leviticus:19:35-36; kjv@Deuteronomy:25:13-16; kjv@Proverbs:11:1; kjv@Proverbs:16:11; kjv@Proverbs:20:10 kjv@Proverbs:20:23 kjv@Hosea:12:7-9; kjv@Micah:6:10-12 .
See DISHONESTY .
See INTEGRITY