'Scales' in the Bible
‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,
Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
“These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat,
but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,And let God know my integrity.
A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;All the weights of the bag are His concern.
A wise man scales the city of the mightyAnd brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,And marked off the heavens by the span,And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,And weighed the mountains in a balanceAnd the hills in a pair of scales?
Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.
“I will put hooks in your jawsAnd make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales.And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.
saying,“When will the new moon be over,So that we may sell grain,And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market,To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger,And to cheat with dishonest scales,
“Can I justify wicked scalesAnd a bag of deceptive weights?
And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;
When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.