qSee Lev. 19:35, 36
Leviticus 19:35-36
35 a“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 bYou 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.Deuteronomy 25:13-16
13“You dshall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. 14You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. 15A full and fair ▼▼Or just, or righteous; twice in this verse
weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, fthat your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 16For gall who do such things, all who act dishonestly, hare an abomination to the Lord your God. Proverbs 11:1
1 iA false balance is an abomination to the Lord,jbut a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:10
10 kUnequal ▼▼Or Two kinds of; also verse 23
weights and unequal measuresare both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 20:23
23 mUnequal weights are an abomination to the Lord,and nfalse scales are not good.
Ezekiel 45:9-12
9“Thus says the Lord God: oEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease pyour evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.10 q“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. ▼ 11The ephah and the bath shall be sof the same measure, tthe bath containing one tenth of a homer, ▼
▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 vThe shekel shall be twenty gerahs; ▼ twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. ▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
Hosea 12:7-8
7 A merchant, in whose hands are yfalse balances,he loves zto oppress.
8Ephraim has said, “Ah, but aaI am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors abthey cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
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