Bible Dictionary: Weights: Provisions Were Sold By, in Times of Scarcity

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Leviticus 26:26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ezekiel 4:10,16
And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
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Library

The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... Rusticus, prefect of the city." These weights of Rusticus ... were advised either to
distribute their provisions to the ... as soon as the barbarians were induced to ...
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The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
... ought to be punished as felony; double weights, too heavy ... vainly with his brothers,
and, as it were, think every godly opportunity seven times as long as ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the life and death of.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... which a couple of oxen were harnessed.* The scarcity of rain ... strangers to each other
as if they were separated by ... so far in ancient as in modern times, but the ...
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