'Scales' in the Bible

"'These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

Any creature in the water that does not have both fins and scales is detestable to you.

These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

The Lord abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

You say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We're eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,