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 will listen to Ephron, and Abraham will weigh to Ephron the silver, which he spake in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, passing for traffic.
Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship
And I shall write in a book, and seal and affirm witnesses, and weigh the silver in the balances.
A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.
Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.
Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?
And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a black horse, and he sitting upon him having a balance 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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Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.
Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?