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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Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down?yes, they worship.
I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat 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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A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?