Verse-by-verse reference
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These 76 pages keep the public-domain World English Bible text, its chapter source, the selected unit system, and the uncertainty note together. Conversion explains scale; it does not rewrite Scripture or turn ancient weights into modern prices.
Genesis 6:15
Noah's ark: 300 × 50 × 30 cubits
The instruction gives all three principal dimensions of the ark. The numbers describe a long, broad vessel rather than supplying a modern ship plan.
Genesis 6:16
The ark's one-cubit upper opening
This detail belongs to the ark instructions immediately after its overall dimensions. Translations differ over whether the feature is a roof, opening, or related finishing detail.
Genesis 7:20
Floodwaters: 15 cubits higher
The verse uses fifteen cubits to describe the waters above the covered mountains in the flood narrative.
Genesis 18:6
Sarah's three seahs of flour
Abraham hurries to arrange food for his visitors, and Sarah is asked to prepare three seahs of fine meal.
Genesis 23:16
Four hundred shekels of silver by merchant weight
Abraham weighs silver for Ephron to complete the field and cave purchase, explicitly using the standard current among merchants.
Genesis 24:22
A half-shekel ring and ten-shekel bracelets
After the camels finish drinking, Abraham's servant gives Rebekah a gold ring and two bracelets whose weights are stated in shekels.
Exodus 16:16
One omer of manna per person
The gathering instruction assigns an omer for each person in a tent, connecting the unit with daily provision in the wilderness.
Exodus 16:22
Two omers for the sixth day
On the sixth day the people gather twice the usual amount, two omers for each person, before the Sabbath instruction is explained.
Exodus 16:36
One omer is one tenth of an ephah
The verse directly defines the relationship between two Hebrew dry measures: ten omers make one ephah.
Exodus 21:32
Thirty shekels of silver
The legal case sets thirty shekels of silver as the payment when an ox kills an enslaved man or woman, while also requiring the ox to be stoned.
Exodus 25:10
The ark: 2½ × 1½ × 1½ cubits
The tabernacle instructions give the ark's length, width, and height before describing its gold covering and rings.
Exodus 25:25
A handbreadth-wide rim
The table for the sanctuary is given a rim or border one handbreadth wide, with a gold moulding around it.
Exodus 25:39
One talent of gold for the lampstand
The lampstand and its accessories are to be made from one talent of pure gold, joining craftsmanship with a very large material allocation.
Exodus 26:2
A 28 × 4 cubit tabernacle curtain
Each of the matching tabernacle curtains is assigned the same length and width, allowing the woven panels to form a coordinated covering.
Exodus 27:1
The altar: 5 × 5 × 3 cubits
The burnt-offering altar is described as a square acacia-wood structure before its bronze covering and associated utensils are specified.
Exodus 28:16
The square breastpiece: one span by one span
The folded priestly breastpiece is to be square, with both length and width stated as one span in the clothing instructions.
Exodus 29:40
One tenth ephah and one quarter hin
The regular offering pairs a lamb with measured flour, oil, and wine. Dry and liquid quantities are deliberately stated with different unit families.
Exodus 30:13
Half a sanctuary shekel and twenty gerahs
The census offering is half a sanctuary shekel, and the verse explicitly defines the full shekel as twenty gerahs.
Exodus 30:24
Five hundred shekels of cassia and one hin of oil
The sacred anointing-oil recipe completes its weighed spices with cassia and adds a measured hin of olive oil.
Exodus 38:24
29 talents and 730 shekels of gold
The tabernacle accounting records the total offered gold using a large talent unit plus a smaller shekel remainder.
Exodus 38:25
100 talents and 1,775 shekels of silver
The next line of the tabernacle account reports the silver from the numbered congregation in talents and shekels.
Exodus 38:26
One beka per counted person
The account states a beka for each counted man and immediately glosses it as half a sanctuary shekel.
Leviticus 5:11
One tenth ephah of fine flour
The law provides a flour offering for someone who cannot afford the birds described in the preceding option.
Leviticus 6:20
One tenth ephah divided morning and evening
The priestly grain offering is a daily tenth of an ephah, divided equally between morning and evening.
Leviticus 14:10
Three tenths ephah of flour and one log of oil
The eighth-day cleansing offering combines three animals with measured flour and a small log of oil for the priestly rite.
Leviticus 14:12
One log of oil in the wave offering
The priest presents the lamb for the trespass offering together with the log of oil introduced in the cleansing instructions.
Leviticus 19:36
A just ephah and a just hin
The command joins honest balances and weights with honest dry and liquid measures, placing commercial accuracy within covenant ethics.
Leviticus 23:13
Two tenths ephah and one quarter hin
The firstfruits instruction specifies a grain offering mixed with oil and a quarter-hin drink offering of wine.
Leviticus 24:5
Two tenths ephah for each of twelve loaves
The bread set before the LORD consists of twelve cakes, each assigned two tenths of an ephah of fine flour.
Numbers 3:47
Five shekels, twenty gerahs each
The redemption amount is five sanctuary shekels, with the twenty-gerah relationship restated in the verse.
Numbers 5:15
One tenth ephah of barley meal
The jealousy offering uses barley meal without oil or frankincense, and its quantity is one tenth of an ephah.
Numbers 7:13
A 130-shekel plate and 70-shekel bowl
The tribal leader's offering includes two silver vessels with their weights recorded before their grain contents are mentioned.
Numbers 11:31
Quail about two cubits above the ground
The wind-driven quail are described around the camp and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
Numbers 11:32
At least ten homers of gathered quail
The people gather quail all day, night, and the next day; even the least gathering is said to be ten homers.
Numbers 15:4
One tenth ephah and one quarter hin
The accompanying offering for a lamb pairs a tenth-ephah of fine flour with a quarter-hin of oil in the wilderness instructions.
Numbers 18:16
Five-shekel firstborn redemption amount
The firstborn redemption valuation is five sanctuary shekels, again using the twenty-gerah shekel defined in the priestly law.
Numbers 35:4
One thousand cubits of pasture land
The Levites' towns are to have pasture lands extending outward from the city wall by one thousand cubits.
Deuteronomy 3:11
Og's bed: 9 × 4 cubits
The note about King Og points readers to an iron bedstead in Rabbah and gives its dimensions by the cubit of a man.
Joshua 3:4
About two thousand cubits from the ark
The people are told to keep a large space between themselves and the ark as they approach an unfamiliar crossing.
Joshua 7:21
Two hundred shekels of silver and a fifty-shekel gold bar
Achan's confession names a garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar weighing fifty shekels among the concealed goods.
Judges 6:19
One ephah of meal for Gideon's cakes
Gideon prepares a young goat, unleavened cakes from an ephah of meal, and broth before presenting the food under the oak.
Ruth 2:17
Ruth's roughly one ephah of barley
After gleaning until evening and beating out what she gathered, Ruth has about an ephah of barley to carry back to Naomi.
1 Samuel 13:21
One pim sharpening charge
The WEB renders the plural form as payim in the list of Philistine sharpening charges for Israelite farm tools.
1 Samuel 17:4
Goliath: six cubits and a span in the WEB
The pinned WEB text describes Goliath's height as six cubits and a span. Ancient textual witnesses do not all preserve the same figure.
1 Samuel 17:5
Goliath's 5,000-shekel bronze armor
The description of Goliath's equipment assigns a five-thousand-shekel weight to his bronze coat of mail.
1 Samuel 17:7
A 600-shekel iron spearhead
Goliath's spear shaft is compared with a weaver's beam, and the iron spearhead is weighed at six hundred shekels.
1 Kings 4:22
Thirty cors of fine flour
The court provision list begins with thirty cors of fine flour before naming meal, cattle, sheep, and game.
1 Kings 7:26
A handbreadth-thick basin holding 2,000 baths
The bronze Sea is described with both a wall thickness and an immense liquid capacity, alongside its decorative brim.
1 Kings 7:38
Ten four-cubit basins holding 40 baths each
Ten bronze basins are each four cubits across and each holds forty baths, one basin for every stand.
1 Kings 10:14
666 talents of gold in one year
The account summarizes the annual weight of gold that came to Solomon before listing income from traders and rulers.
2 Kings 6:25
One quarter kab during Samaria's famine
The siege famine is depicted through shocking market prices, including five pieces of silver for a quarter-kab of an undesirable substance.
2 Kings 7:1
One seah of fine flour for one shekel
Elisha announces that the besieged city's food market will reverse by the next day, giving a seah-per-shekel example.
Ezra 8:27
Two gold vessels totaling 1,000 darics
Among the valuables entrusted for the journey are two fine gold vessels whose total weight is stated in darics.
Ezekiel 4:10
Twenty shekels of food per day
Ezekiel's enacted siege sign restricts food by weight and requires the stated portion to be eaten at appointed times.
Ezekiel 4:11
One sixth of a hin of water
The same enacted siege sign limits Ezekiel's water to one sixth of a hin, consumed at appointed intervals through the day.
Ezekiel 40:5
A six-long-cubit measuring reed
The vision explicitly defines the measuring standard: each cubit includes an added handbreadth, and the reed contains six of those long cubits.
Ezekiel 43:13
Long-cubit altar measurements and a one-span rim
The altar dimensions reopen by restating that the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth, then naming a span at the boundary.
Ezekiel 45:11
Ephah and bath: each one tenth of a homer
The reform vision aligns dry ephah and liquid bath capacities, with each set at one tenth of the homer standard.
Ezekiel 45:12
A 60-shekel mina in Ezekiel
The verse defines the shekel as twenty gerahs and totals three groups of shekels—twenty, twenty-five, and fifteen—for its mina.
Ezekiel 45:14
One tenth bath from each cor of oil
The oil levy is stated as a tenth of a bath from a cor, with the cor identified here as ten baths and a homer.
Luke 19:13
Ten minas entrusted to ten servants
In the parable a nobleman gives ten servants ten mina coins and instructs them to conduct business until he returns.
Luke 24:13
Emmaus: 60 stadia from Jerusalem
Two disciples travel to a village called Emmaus, whose distance from Jerusalem is given as sixty stadia.
John 21:8
The boat about 200 cubits from shore
The disciples bring the net in with the small boat because they are not far from land, a distance estimated at about two hundred cubits.
Acts 27:28
Soundings of 20 and then 15 fathoms
Sailors approaching danger take repeated depth soundings and find the water rapidly shallowing from twenty to fifteen fathoms.
Matthew 5:41
One compelled Roman mile, then a second
Jesus' saying addresses being compelled to go one mile and responds with the striking instruction to go two.
Matthew 18:24
A debt of 10,000 talents
The parable opens its settlement with a servant owing ten thousand talents, an intentionally overwhelming accounting amount.
Matthew 25:15
Five, two, and one talent entrusted
The master entrusts different large sums to three servants according to ability before leaving on his journey.
Luke 12:25
One cubit added by anxiety
Jesus asks whether anxiety can add a cubit to a person's height or span of life, depending on how the expression is understood.
Luke 16:6
A debt of 100 batos of oil
The manager asks the first debtor's amount and rewrites one hundred batos of oil as fifty. Batos is the Greek-form capacity related to bath.
Luke 16:7
A debt of 100 cors of wheat
The second debtor owes one hundred cors of wheat, and the manager changes the written amount to eighty.
John 6:19
Rowing about 25–30 stadia
The disciples have rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia when they see Jesus walking on the sea near the boat.
John 11:18
Bethany about 15 stadia from Jerusalem
The narrative locates Bethany near Jerusalem, helping explain why many Judeans had come to Martha and Mary.
Acts 1:12
A Sabbath day's journey from Olivet
The disciples return to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, described as a Sabbath day's journey away.
Revelation 6:6
One choenix of wheat or three of barley
The voice in the vision announces sharply constrained grain quantities for a denarius while protecting oil and wine.
Revelation 14:20
A distance of 1,600 stadia
The winepress vision uses an immense distance outside the city together with blood rising to the horses' bridles.
Revelation 16:21
Hailstones about one talent each
The seventh-bowl vision portrays extraordinarily severe hail, with individual stones compared to a talent in weight.