11 Bible Verses about Weights And Measures, Laws
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Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.read more.
Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.' 'Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,' declares the Lord Jehovah. You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail. You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit. We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people. The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.read more.
I also struck you with a grievous wound. I made you desolate because of your sins. You will eat and not be satisfied. Your stomach will still be empty. You will put away and yet will not save. That which you save I will give to the sword.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Many and different weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.
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