Micah 6:10

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Summary

Micah 6:10

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

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And

Amos 8:5

General references

Exodus 20:15

Leviticus 25:14

Ezekiel 45:10

Bible References

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And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, taketh of the devoted thing, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against the sons of Israel.

And Naaman saith, 'Be pleased, take two talents;' and he urgeth on him, and bindeth two talents of silver in two purses, and two changes of garments, and giveth unto two of his young men, and they bear before him;

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters With violence and deceit.

And he saith unto me, 'This is the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

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'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

General references

'Thou dost not steal.

'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.