Amos 8:5
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5 saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
and practice deceit with false balances,(A)
Micah 6:10-11
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10 Can I forget[a] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
and the despicable false measure?(A)
11 Can I tolerate wicked scales
and a bag of dishonest weights?(B)
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- 6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Hosea 12:7
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7 A trader in whose hands are false balances,
he loves to oppress.(A)
Nehemiah 13:15-21
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Sabbath Reforms Begun
15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens that they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them at that time against selling food.(A) 16 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem. 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?(B) 18 Did not your ancestors act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”(C)
19 When it began to be dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I set some of my servants over the gates, to prevent any burden from being brought in on the Sabbath day.(D) 20 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.(E)
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
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13 “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, large and small.(A) 14 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, large and small. 15 You shall have only a full and honest weight; you shall have only a full and honest measure, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are abhorrent to the Lord your God.(B)
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Isaiah 1:13
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13 Bringing offerings is futile;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation—
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.(A)
Proverbs 20:23
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23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord,
and false scales are not good.
Proverbs 16:11
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11 Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag are his work.(A)
Proverbs 11:1
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11 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is his delight.(A)
Psalm 81:3-4
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3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our festal day.(A)
4 For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
2 Kings 4:23
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23 He said, “Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It will be all right.”(A)
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Numbers 10:10
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10 Also on your days of rejoicing, at your appointed festivals, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over your sacrifices of well-being; they shall serve as a reminder on your behalf before the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.”(A)
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Leviticus 19:36
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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.
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Exodus 20:8-10
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8 “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.(A) 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.(B) 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
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Ezekiel 45:10-12
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Weights and Measures
10 “You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.[a](A) 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.(B)
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- 45.10 A Heb measure of volume
Isaiah 58:13
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13 If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath,
from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;(A)
Numbers 28:11-15
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Monthly Offerings
11 “At the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;(A) 12 also three-tenths of an ephah of choice flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two-tenths of choice flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;(B) 13 and one-tenth of choice flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb—a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire[a] to the Lord. 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. 15 And there shall be one male goat for a purification offering to the Lord; it shall be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.(C)
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- 28.13 Or a gift
Colossians 2:16
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16 Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or[a] drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths.(A)
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- 2.16 Other ancient authorities read and
Romans 8:6-7
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6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit[a] is life and peace.(A) 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,(B)
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- 8.6 Or spirit
Malachi 1:13
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13 “What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at it,[a] says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.(A)
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- 1.13 Or at me
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