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Balances » False balance used
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;
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Character » Of the wicked » Fraudulent
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.
Character of the wicked » Fraudulent
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.
Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Lying/lies » Who is a liar
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Don't you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me. Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. read more.
One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. read more.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Measure » Must be just
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. read more.
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin." "But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright. "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; read more.
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit. "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate. "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit. "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate. "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied. You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. read more.
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Violence » Who is violent
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. read more.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Weights » Must be just
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.