10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use

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Leviticus 19:35-36

Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. 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.

Ezekiel 45:10

A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run ye to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye shall find a man, if there is he doing judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I will pardon to her.

Hosea 12:6-7

And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God. Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

Amos 8:4-8

Hear this, ye, panting after the needy, to cause the humble of the, land to cease. 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? To buy the poor with silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will sell the refuse of the grain.read more.
Jehovah sware by the pride of Jacob, If I will forget forever all their works. For this shall not the land be moved, and all dwelling in it, mourn? And it came up all of it as a river; and it was driven out and watered as the river of Egypt

Micah 6:10-13

Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed? Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit? For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth.read more.
And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins.

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