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.
"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?
Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No”;
anything more than this comes from the evil one.
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