Deuteronomy 25:13
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13 “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, large and small.(A)
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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)
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)
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)
Leviticus 19:35-37
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35 “You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity. 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. 37 You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”
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Ezekiel 45:10-11
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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.
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- 45.10 A Heb measure of volume
Proverbs 20:10
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10 Diverse weights and diverse measures
are both alike an abomination to the Lord.(A)
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