American Metrological Society Proceedings, Volumes 1-5The Society, 1889 |
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Page 144 - The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Page 5 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 256 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Page 99 - Congress assembled, that the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 257 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 77 - President, in the Chair. The SECRETARY read the minutes of the last meeting.
Page 258 - Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the...
Page 258 - And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
Page 145 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Page 145 - Thou shall not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small: 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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| Title | American Metrological Society Proceedings, Volumes 1-5 |
| Author | American Metrological Society |
| Publisher | The Society, 1889 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2007 |
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