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 listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, which passes with the merchant.
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.
And I wrote it in the document, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.
You shall have a just balance, a just ephah and a just bath.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;
And when He had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked, and lo, a black horse. And he sitting on it had 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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He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?