You shall do no wrong in judgment, in
measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 You
shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the
Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt
You shall not keep two differing weights
in your bag, one heavy and the other light; 14 nor
shall you keep two different ephahs in your
house, one large and the other small. 15 But use a
full and just weight, a full and just ephah, so that you may have a long life
on the land the Lord, your God, is giving you. 16 For
everyone who does these things, everyone who does what is dishonest, is an
abomination to the Lord, your God.
False scales are an abomination to the
Lord, but an honest weight, his delight.
A just balance and scales are the
Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Varying weights, varying measures, are
both an abomination to the Lord.
Differing weights are an abomination to
the Lord, and a false scale is not good.
"The Lord Yahweh says
this: Enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and plundering, do what
is upright and just, stop crushing my people with taxation -- declares the Lord
Yahweh. 10
Have fair scales, a fair ephah, a fair bat.
Merchants use fraudulent
scales. To defraud is his delight. 9 'How rich I have become!' says Ephraim, 'I have made a
fortune.' But of all his gains he will keep nothing because of the sin of which
he is guilty.
Listen to this, you who
crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing, 5 you who say, 'When will
New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can
market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure smaller and the
shekel-weight bigger, by fraudulently tampering with the scales. 6 We can buy up the weak
for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, and even get a price for the
sweepings of the wheat.' 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, 'Never will I forget
anything they have done.'
Can I forget the treasures of wickedness
in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? 11 Shall
I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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