“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 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.
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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