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Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,Saying,‘ When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
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Proverbs 16:11
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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Leviticus 19:35-36
“‘ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
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Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
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Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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Deuteronomy 25:15
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.