'Balances' in the Bible
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.