²⁶ When he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.^(A)

²⁰ They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you that, if a man wears long hair, it is dishonoring to him,

⁹ Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging^[a] between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.^(A)

⁹ “Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.^(A)

Weights and Measures

¹⁰ “You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.^{[a](B) 11} The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one-tenth of a homer and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. ¹² The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make a mina for you.^(C)

Offerings

¹³ “This is the offering that you shall make: one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, ¹⁴ and as the fixed portion of oil^[b] one-tenth of a bath^[c] from each cor (the cor,^[d] like the homer, contains ten baths),

³⁶ You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.^(A)