²⁶ Whenever he cut the hair of his head^(A)—he used to cut his hair once a year because it became too heavy for him—he would weigh it, and its weight was two hundred shekels^[a] by the royal standard.

²⁰ “‘They must not shave^(A) their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.^(B)

¹⁴ Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

⁹ Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s hair^(A) got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.

⁹ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression^(A) and do what is just and right.^(B) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. ¹⁰ You are to use accurate scales,^(C) an accurate ephah^[a](D) and an accurate bath.^{[b] 11} The ephah^(E) and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. ¹² The shekel^[c] is to consist of twenty gerahs.^(F) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.^[d]

¹³ “‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah^[e] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah^[f] from each homer of barley. ¹⁴ The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath^[g] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).