'Scales' in the Bible
“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.
But these are to be detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming things and other living creatures in the water.
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales will be detestable to you.
“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.
Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,but an accurate weight is His delight.
Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;all the weights in the bag are His concern.
Differing weights are detestable to the Lord,and dishonest scales are unfair.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his handor marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measureor weighed the mountains in a balanceand the hills in the scales?
Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Those who pour out their bags of goldand weigh out silver on scales—they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.Then they kneel and bow down to it.
“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
I will put hooks in your jawsand make the fish of your streamscling to your scales.I will haul you upfrom the middle of your Nile,and all the fish of your streamswill cling to your scales.
A merchant loves to extortwith dishonest scales in his hands.
asking, “When will the New Moon be overso we may sell grain,and the Sabbath,so we may market wheat?We can reduce the measurewhile increasing the priceand cheat with dishonest scales.
Can I excuse wicked scalesor bags of deceptive weights?
At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.