Reference: Balances
Morish
Moznayim, ?????, a pair of balances or scales: such are seen on the Egyptian monuments, with the weights in one scale and the article to be weighed in the other. They were needful also in early days for weighing the money: when Abraham bought a burying place he "weighed to Ephron the silver." Ge 23:16: cf. Jer 32:10. Job asked to be weighed in an even balance, Job 31:6: cf. Le 19:36; Eze 45:10, for men contrived to falsify the balance, as well as the weights, which was an abomination to the Lord. Pr 11:1; 16:11; Ho 12:7; Am 8:5. In Isa 46:6 another Hebrew word is used, qaneh, which signifies a reed, rod or beam, which may refer to the beam of the scales, for it is not known that the steel-yard was then in use. In Re 6:5 the rider on the black horse had a pair of balances with which to weigh out the food, showing that great scarcity will be one of God's judgements in the future.
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And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.
Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.
Smith
Balances.
Reference to balances is found in
They were in common use, gold and silver being paid out and received by weight. Reference is also made in
to the dishonest practice of buying by heavier and selling by lighter weights.
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As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?