Weights in Biblical History

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What are Weights?
WEIGHTS
See Measures. WELLS were very essential in a dry and hot country like Palestine, and were generally provided at each place of pasturage with a great outlay of labor. They were deep, John 4:11, and difficult both to dig and preserve, and hence were a valuable part of the husbandman's property. Num 20:17-19. They were sometimes owned in common. Gen 29:2-3. To protect them from the sand and from being used by others, they were covered, usually with a stone, and surrounded with a low wall. Gen 29:2, 1 Kgs 15:8. To stop them up was, and still is, regarded as an act of hostility. Gen 26:15, and to invade the right of property in them was often the cause of sharp contention. Gen 21:25. The water was sometimes drawn by a well-sweep and bucket, sometimes by a windlass, but generally by pitchers and a rope. In a country where water was so valuable and so difficult to be procured, the well naturally became the centre of many scenes of actual life - the halting-place of the traveller. Gen 24:11; the camping-place of armies, Jud 7:1, etc. - and it furnished an appropriate emblem of rich blessings. Jer 2:13; Jer 17:13. See Jacob's Well and Beer-sheba.

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