10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use
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" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
[There] shall be for you {an honest set of scales} and {an honest ephah} and {an honest bath}.
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them} [are] an abomination of Yahweh.
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
An abomination of Yahweh [is] {a stone and a weight}, and scales of falsehood are not good.
"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.
But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God. [The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land, saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make [the] ephah small and make [the] shekel large, and can practice deceit [with] a set of scales of deceit? {That we can} buy [the] powerless with silver and [the] poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"read more.
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds! On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living [thing] in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile and it will be tossed about and subside like the Nile of Egypt.
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed? Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.read more.
And I also {have made you sick by striking you down}, making [you] desolate because of your sins.
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- Abominations
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- Buying and selling
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- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty
- Dishonesty Condemned
- Fraud
- God, Will Of
- Honesty
- Just Weights
- Money, Stewardship Of
- Right Measures
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- Trade
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- Balance
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- Weight
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