11 Bible Verses about Weights And Measures, Laws

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Or in your house different measures, a great and a small. But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.read more.
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord. Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways. And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.read more.
So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins. You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.